Legacy Quotes

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Abdul Kalam

Technology, Everything, Why

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.
Paula Deen

Money, Important, Fashion

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.
Hillary Clinton

Judge, Career, After

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler

Someone, Die, Once

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
Samuel Butler

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
Katy Perry

Life, Love, Time

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
Aaliyah

Long, Hard, Gone

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
Cat Stevens

God, Greatest, Value

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
David Bowie

Life, Work, Him

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

Nothing, Name, Fame

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

Young, Water, Land

I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.
Tyra Banks

Women, Business, Strong

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.
Michael Bloomberg

Money, Fight, Down

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
Katy Perry

Girl, Leave, Kissed

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
Shania Twain

Life, Famous, Die

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
Camille Paglia

Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.
Ron Fournier

Good, Health, Care

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, Nothing, Done

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
Kevin Costner

Best, Rock, Children

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.
Clive Anderson

Children, Difficult, Idea

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
Bell Hooks

Men, Why, Color

When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.
Arlen Specter

Talk, Early, Asked

The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.
George H. W. Bush

Woman, Black, Off

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
Jamie Foxx

Beautiful, Give, Living

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
Rupert Murdoch

Change, Around, Proud

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.
Robert Duvall

Hope, Enjoy, Whatever

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.
Shigeru Miyamoto

History, Stand, Terms

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.
Eddie Van Halen

Family, Long, After

You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.
Ice Cube

Done, Scared, Coming

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