Quotes About Legacy

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.

I was born in the house my father built.

Unlike Churchill I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.

A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

If you're lucky enough to get old, I think you should celebrate it.

Do something worth remembering.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.

Don't die with your music still inside.

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?