Quotes About Legacy

The sins of the parents are the destinies of their children. Unless the children wake up and do something about it.

Jim Morrison had star quality and he's dead. Star quality's no good to you when you're dead.

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

Rock and Roll can never die.

You might notice I refer to my son Ben as Ben Young all the time. Larry (Johnson) always called his son Ben Johnson. I liked the pride with which he would say "Ben Johnson." It is a lingering memory of his great spirit.

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.

Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout, whose whispering in the night sounds less hollow than its roistering noontime laugh: they have builded a heavy-shouldered laughter here who went to work too young.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Reconciliation means working together to correct the legacy of past injustice.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great...

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

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O mais importante da vida é a marca que deixamos na vida dos outros.

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never return.

and when we did come out [of prison], my children said, "We thought we had a father and one day he'd come back. But to our dismay, our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come. There are victories whose glory lies only in the fact that they are known to those who win them. This is particularly true of prison, where you must find consolation in being true to your ideals, even if no one else knows of it.