Quotes About Legacy

To continue my efforts as a leader for my people and to follow my family's legacy of providing legitimate opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through my sport of basketball is the true outcome of my personal success and accomplishments.

While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.

The way I feel is I have to keep going out there and proving people. I don't want to be just a guy who has a couple of good years and then that's it.

I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

I probably give 80% more to my children than my father gave to me and still it doesn't come up to scratch. I don't feel guilty about it. Do my children love me? I think that is self-evident. Will they have psychological scars? No, because they have a wonderful mummy.

My mother's father was the behavioral psychologist, John B. Watson.

My grandad, he has his doctorate in psychology.

Life was simple and the credit goes to my parents. They decided to bring us up in a certain way and kept us away from public eye. I am doing the same with my children.

There was definitely a time where I really didn't want to be in the public eye, or have people know who I was and then they knew what my last name was, and you know, I've battled with that a little bit.

My family is in business since long. No one has been in the entertainment industry and in the public eye. So, it was a great deal for me to get into.

Even though I was away from the public eye, I was in the public memory.

Hillary Clinton's progress as a public figure and politician can, in fact, be indexed perfectly by her relationship to Henry Kissinger.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.

It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities.

You don't know how long you have in public life... I want to make the best of it while I've got the role.

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts.

The music departments in the public school system gave me a really extraordinary foundation and music appreciation that I still draw from, even today.

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

At the end of the day, you are judged by your character. And look, I'm proud of my record of working to help people throughout my years of public service.

I came from a family where public service and giving back was a prerequisite.