Quotes About Legacy

He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.

You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

Today's future is Tomorrow's past

I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.

...we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

The medals of the dead heroes are the coins for the future. (Les médailles des héros morts - Sont les pièces pour l'avenir.)

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.

If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?

Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.