Quotes About Legacy

My family, my mom in particular, got so much love and appreciation from the audience. As a consequence, I have also got some of that love. I now have to work doubly hard to prove that I deserve it, on my own, also.

What you do as president has consequences.

I'm proud of the fact I was able to surround myself with great people who did great things, and it resulted in the Bulls being a global brand and winning championships and a factor in the community.

We try to surround ourselves with love and light. You have to be there for each other. As a family, we are trying to make sure everything Dad worked so hard for carries on into the future.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

Whether I live long or short is not the question: what quality that I surrounded myself is!

My grandmother actually was not a lawyer, but it feels like I was surrounded by lawyers.

I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.

Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.

The good thing that may yet happen during dying is not the possibility of survival when we're beyond that point. The good thing that may yet happen is that our lives will have great meaning for those we leave behind.

When you have children, you almost feel like you've made your contribution to the survival of the human species. It's your way of passing the baton.

I am what survives of me.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.