Legacy Quotes

• It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

  

  Christine Gregoire
  • Up
  • Live
  • Children

• In a way players at the top should try to promote the game in their own countries as that is the legacy that makes you feel proud. If you have not done that you have failed as a sportsperson.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Player

• I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.

  

  Asghar Ali Engineer
  • Legacy
  • Historical
  • Burden

• You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Legacy

• Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Legacy

• I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.

  

  Joaquim Barbosa
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

  

  James H. Douglas, Jr.
  • Work
  • Food
  • Respect

• I think Hillary Clinton has made great strides in doing so, even though there are people who want to bring us back to the '50s and still define a woman by her husband and her husband's legacy. But she has proven herself to be a force on her own and is an example to us of how women should and can be judged on their own merits.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Great
  • Judged
  • Hillary Clinton

• Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Children
  • Book
  • Soul

• As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.

  

  Bernice King
  • Father
  • Peace
  • Legacy

• I actually don't hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, 'How will this affect my legacy?'

  

  David Stern
  • Hope
  • Legacy

• In his time both on the field and on the sideline, Jack Pardee will forever be a part of the Washington Redskins' legacy.

  

  Daniel Snyder
  • Time
  • Forever
  • Legacy

• Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Proud

• Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

  

  Paul Weyrich
  • Legacy

• We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Great
  • Done
  • Water

• This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • Water
  • Air
  • Legacy

• Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Choices
  • Generations
  • Claims

• I am deeply honored by the opportunity to lead Intel. We have amazing assets, tremendous talent, and an unmatched legacy of innovation and execution. I look forward to working with our leadership team and employees worldwide to continue our proud legacy while moving even faster into ultra-mobility to lead Intel into the next era.

  

  Brian Krzanich
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Amazing

• Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Different
  • President
  • Office

• Whatever I'm going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • Legacy

• I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.

  

  Michael Stephen Portnoy Adrenaline Mob
  • Honor
  • Records
  • Pay

• I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of that movement to get our government spending under control, I think that would be a tremendous legacy to leave.

  

  Ben Quayle
  • Control
  • Legacy

• I decided to leave most of my wealth to my charitable foundation, which is not to be confused with my charity. My charity helps children directly. The charitable foundation will receive most of my legacy when I die.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Children
  • Die
  • Charity

• About his legacy: I'll be all right so long as it has been written on some corner of a human heart. On the heart, it doesn't matter how you spell it.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Legacy

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