Quotes About Legacy

To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.

You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.

Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies.

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

The success that Pantera had, I could have never, ever forecasted or predicted, and I always felt a responsibility to try to pay even a bit of it forward.

We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books.

My mom got pregnant when she was 15. She dropped out of high school. She died in her forties, but before she died, she went back and finished high school.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

My dad's a filmmaker, and my mom's an actress. She was the original understudy, actually, for Harper in 'Angels in America' and did the show for about several months while she was pregnant with my older brother. And so I grew up obsessed with film and filmmaking.

The thing that I hate the most is when people have prejudice - when they see me as the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini and not as Alessandra. That, really, I don't like. I didn't know my grandfather. I am me.

Weimar lasted 14 years, the Third Reich only 12. Yet Weimar is always seen as a prelude to the Third Reich, which appears to have been created by Weimar's failures.

I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else.

There is definitely an argument that Sergio Aguero is the Premier League's best ever striker.

The most important thing is making sure that we survive because Fulham deserves to be in the Premier League - it's a great club with a lot of history.

I arrived in the Premier League late at 29 years old - you still have to live 50 years after football. You do your best for yourself and your family. You've got to fight for what you believe.