Quotes About Legacy

If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.

The confidence Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson exuded from stage, I'm a fan of.

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?

From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.

I don't want my kids saying, 'My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, 'My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.'

It is good to be Compared with the best player [Pele]. But my dad told me about Garrincha's style as he moved forward, went up, attacked and dribbled. Garrincha's style is more similar to Neymar's.

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am.

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?