Quotes About Legacy

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

For sure yeah, Bullet Club is definitely synonymous with pro wrestling as a whole.

The identity of the Raiders was linked to Oakland, and the identity of Oakland was linked to the Raiders. They're synonymous. It's one and the same.

To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin.

The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

We've had a difficult legacy of 40 years, and cleaning up is not going to be a one day job. But we are engaged in a systematic effort, we have not allowed formation of new militia groups, and we are reforming the local police systematically so that there won't be abuse.

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

I know John Lewis was a man of deep faith and I pray that his spirit will always guide us as we continue the work of systemic change. He charted a path for us. May we all commit to walk in his footsteps.

Reading, writing, math… Things such as that were a lot easier to teach. It was my hope that if enough people were taught some of the old ways, that people would not have such a hard time progressing. The most important lesson of all though, was to care. Teach people to care about the land around them, and that they could really make a difference. Bright

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.

Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

Chamberlain -- he was bigger than Shaq, just as strong as Shaq, ran just as good as Shaq, rebounded better.... Everybody thinks the new players are bigger, stronger, faster and smarter. But they are not.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

The greatest coach in basketball history began his professional career coaching football players at basketball.

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

I achieved what all artists dread: I had outlived most of my money and all of my talent.

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.

What if you started acting like what you do for kids is more important than anything else you do.