Quotes About Legacy

As it is, I played 99 per cent of my football in the Premier League and I'd proud of that fact. That's where my history is.

The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

A preoccupation with money and, especially, with what money meant was, in our family, an inherited thing. My father's father, Jack, who died before I was born, was very much possessed by the idea that money was freedom.

Kids from New York usually don't stay in New York anymore: they go to prep schools and all sorts of stuff nowadays. I'm just happy to be one of the guys in our league from New York, to represent.

It's true you never know the full depth of a parent's touch in your life until they're gone. Even if you cared for them in their old age, there's never a way to prepare yourself for the death of a parent.

For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very selfish.

You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

I feel that I'm very much in touch with my father's spirit and presence. I feel it, sense it and take much energy and inspiration from that.

We all know he was talented but he was also a very smart, kind, funny individual and his personality and presence will be deeply missed. There will never be another person like him but his legacy will live forever. R.I.P. Chad Butler.

And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

I was extremely close to my mother-in-law and after she, and later my father-in-law passed away, I continue to feel their presence.

I don't think I am a big artiste but the new ones do get intimidated by my presence.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.