Quotes About Legacy

We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.

There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

He who controls the past controls the future.

Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance... but most of all I want a future for our children.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

My father gave me some advice when I was very young - whatever someone tells you in the future, don't forget Pele is the best.

I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.

Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.

In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.

We are prophets of a future not our own.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.