Quotes About Legacy

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

I believe that it is appropriate for young people in society to revisit Malcolm's journey and his role in history.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.

I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

It takes a society to raise a generation.

This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.

Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity.

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.