Quotes About Legacy

Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.

I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.

You know at 14, when you lose your hero - your father - that's why I hold him on such a high pedestal.

Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.

I think that it is important to mingle with your peers and get to know the people that you coming up with because everything that we're doing is history.

I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.

At the University of Miami in the U.S., people thought I was there only because I was Bob Marley's son. I had to prove myself on the football field and soon earned the respect of my peers.

Recognize that the issues we face as women advancing in business are issues my grandmother would have loved to have had. And fight the good fight nonetheless. For yourself and your peers - but also for your daughter, when it's her turn.

I'm used to being respected for what I do, and I've watched as my peers - Doug E. Fresh, MC Lyte - do the same thing and I remember the ones before me - LL, Run-DMC - how it was for them. I think we were able to achieve what we achieved because we watched the generation before us.

I've searched all of my life for approval from my dad who is not around. So if I can get approval by his fans or from peers and critics, it helps me.

I am proud to wear the name Le Pen.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

I wanted to go down as one of the best running backs to ever play at Penn State.

There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.

It's not about the pennies as such, but what I've been able to create for the family. I have done that better than I could have ever dreamed.

I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Yes, I've never inherited a penny!

My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.

I believe I never finished playing Sherry Palmer, that's why when the thought they shot and killed me, Penny's butt kept breathing on the floor, because I believe that she never died. I just feel like that's a character that I would want to play to feel a completion, because I never really completed playing her.

I am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don't want to rest on those songs. I want to have a future.

I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.