Quotes About Legacy

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.

'Don't Cry Daddy' is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, 'I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy'. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

I'm glad I'm still in motion. I don't think of my past achievements. The most important thing is what I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm happy I did what I did. Thanks be to God.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!

We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God.

If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god.

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

[I want to be remembered] as a great servant of God who tried to give back as much as possible, and as a great father and husband.

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

God doesn't have any grandchildren.

If you be faithful as an influencer, God will allow those you mentored you to become your mentees.

I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."

I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift... Of expressing all that is in me.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

The temple will be an ever-present reminder that God intended the family to be eternal.

From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.

Always a godfather, never a god.

When you choose whether to make or keep a covenant with God, you choose whether you will leave an inheritance of hope to those who might follow your example.

Oh, my God, I don't think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.