Quotes About Legacy

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

The future is the keeper of the memories of the past

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom.

History is rooted in the future

Obamaism is the future of America.

In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

What is the future you're creating right now?

Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.

In the future history will be made only by us.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.

America is great, because America is good. And it really is up to all of us to make that true, now and in the future, and particularly for our children and our grandchildren.

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.