Esmeralda Santiago Quotes

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.

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• Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Want
  • Matter

• Since mobile, indie and retro inspired games are built on a legacy of inequality in the medium the new wave of 80s and 90s nostalgia has brought with it a resurrection of the worst of the old-school damsel in distress stereotypes. Indeed, many of these new titles essentially function as

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • School
  • Inspired
  • Legacy

• My teaching is my legacy.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Legacy

• I had been on another procedural show, 'Cold Case,' for seven years, and I certainly respected the legacy of 'Law & Order,' even though I had only seen a handful of episodes. Being a dad meant the reality was that I probably knew more about Dora and Diego. But I saw the show with fresh eyes, and I wasn't coming in with a bunch of baggage.

  

  Danny Pino
  • Reality
  • Law
  • Dad

• What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Legacy

• I don't think I deviated from what I'm all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • Important
  • Legacy

• When you're on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn't do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by - legacy. Go about things the right way.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Team
  • Player
  • Humble

• I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Different
  • Legacy

• Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Reality
  • Legacy

• The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • World
  • American
  • Future

• We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • Children
  • Legacy

• Finn doesn't have as much respect for Han's legacy as everybody else does, and Han finds that a bit charming. They team up and go on a mission together. The banter is very choppy, and the dialogue is pretty funny. Chewie enjoys the banter and the friction between the two, but they definitely have each other's backs.

  

  John Boyega
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• The 2012 Olympics is a fantastic incentive for everyone to help leave a sporting legacy and show that Britain is truly a great sporting nation.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Great
  • Help
  • Legacy

• Klitschko was the reigning champion for a decade and regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. I'm never going to face another opponent with that legacy.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • Time
  • Champion
  • Legacy

• President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Way
  • President
  • Created

• My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Purpose
  • Should
  • Able

• I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Family

• The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Names

• The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Science
  • Interesting
  • Civilization

• Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Music
  • Air

• I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really - like a beer that's been in a brawl.

  

  David Justice
  • Really
  • Beer
  • Scotch

• When asked her occupation: Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

  

  Carrie Nation
  • Devil
  • Order
  • Direct

• They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
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