Definition of Legacy

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Legacy

A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.

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Legacy Quotations

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

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

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

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.
Louis Farrakhan

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

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

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

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.
Sheldon Adelson

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

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

Legacy Translations

legacy in French is legs
legacy in Norwegian is testamentarisk gave
legacy in Spanish is legado
legacy in Swedish is arv

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