Quotes About Legacy

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as Gods children.

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.

We never conceive the greatness of our fates.

To be a Jew is a destiny

Blood is not destiny.

... you might have been born to work the land. But according to the fate you've made for yourself, you were meant to save it.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people.

I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.

I would like to be remembered, well... the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.

I never thought about leaving a tennis legacy. I always thought about leaving a legacy of fulfillment, living out your dreams, and giving back.