Quotes About Legacy

As adults, we realize that the real future lies in the hands of our children and grandchildren. Our first priority should be the nurturing and education of America's youth.

Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.

Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

My grandfather, or Nana Ji, as we called him, was a family legend. Amarnath Vidyalankar spent his life fighting for India's independence, which included spending four years in prison in Mahatma Gandhi's movement. I still remember the conversations we had together, many of them while playing chess.

Oh, what am I for the Frenchman or the Italian? A guy who was in prison, a revolutionary, somebody they once read something about in the newspaper - but not me.

I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

I've done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege.

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

The Corps is in good hands, and it's been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it's time to go.

I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.

I'm very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and far between, and it's important to continue that relationship between Broadway and film. It's a privilege and an honor for me to be instrumental in some way in keeping that alive.

Being my father's son is a kind of privilege.

I don't discount the privilege that comes with being the kid of two very great actors. All I can say is I'm very grateful that I've had their examples. And it's fun to get to share it with them.

It's been a privilege for me, really, to play for one of the biggest clubs in the world, an iconic club, an institution.

It is a great privilege for me to play at Man United, where great players like Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole have played.

I didn't have the privilege to enter the industry just because my father is Subhendu Chatterjee. I am nowhere near my father's charismatic look. I chose this profession out of my passion for acting.

I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.