Quotes About Legacy

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

I'm from the future, I'm from the past, but I'm also from the present, because I'm a gift.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

Live a full life, an honest life so that on your deathbed, you can tell yourself that you did the best you could, in the circumstances that were presented to you.

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

I have to put a business model together because certain businesses are approaching me as a legend, as if I'm on my way out. Same goes for the way I get presented on the VH1 Hip Hop Honors and BET. I get lifetime achievement awards because of who I am and what I've done, but they want to put me in a place, as if I'm on my way out.

My parents are very proud that I was a 'Blue Peter' presenter and of me going to Cambridge to do economics.

On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

Just watching this woman owning the TV, there is no doubt that the reason I wanted to get into TV presenting is down to Cilla.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

I think there's probably really wonderful music that has been lost due to the lack of preservation methods way back in the day.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

We preserve the legacy of my father through an education approach. We award scholarships. We do classes at schools about my father's philosophy and life.

We must preserve our cultural identity.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.