Quotes About Legacy

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.