Quotes About Legacy

If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion.

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

I am doing the servant job in order for you to become the owners of Heaven

Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.

Who doesn't respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

Ric Flair, you put me in this position. You named me the Legend Killer and after Tuesday, you will respect me.

I have a lot of respect for Jay-Z, Eminem, Ludacris, Cee-Lo. They're groundbreaking.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.

The people I respect all died broke and despairing. They didn't leave a lot of hammered iron behind them like Donald Trump has done.

Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

The best security for old age: respect your children.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.