Quotes About Legacy

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave.

In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.