Quotes About Legacy

And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.

I know people think I invented the Victoria sandwich, but I'm really not that old.

My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

Today, in 2014, Victoria is a better, stronger, more financially secure state than when we came to government four years ago.

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.

My father was a Victorian product. He didn't marry until he was over 40. I knew him more as a grandfather than a father. You didn't lie or cheat with him. I would never have defied my father.

We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.

As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

My father had an expression, if you want to know the road ahead, ask the person that's been there. We found that person. Ten Super Bowl appearances, seven victories... Tom Brady.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

I'll never be able to replace the feeling of standing victorious in the ring, that's never going to happen again and I'm never going to fight again.

History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

The Umbrella Movement was a legacy, not a victory, because there weren't any concrete policies or systematic reforms after it.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.