Quotes About Legacy

My mother, Agnes Dereon Beyince, was a seamstress and designer, and her passion passed down to me.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

What I have inherited from my father is my passion for my work which is my music.

I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.

I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died.

Anyone who knows me knows that I will continue to work on 'SpongeBob SquarePants' and my other passions for as long as I am able.

Of course I have other passions... but my real investment obviously without a second thought is LVMH and what my father created.

Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

I exist only in the past.

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

We can't let the past be forgotten.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.