Legacy Quotes - Page 28

• I’d been raised to be practical and keep my emotions in check, but I loved cars. That was one of the few legacies I’d picked up from my mom. She was a mechanic, and some of my best childhood memories were of working in the garage with her.

  Richelle Mead

  Mom, Memories, Car

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.30, Penguin

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• Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

  John Green

  War, Leaving, World

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose to live the profits plan Everybody sing- Every day create your History, Every path you take you're leaving your legacy Every soldier dies in his glory Every legend tells of conquest and liberty.

  Michael Jackson

  Land, Leaving, Soldier

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• No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.

  John Perkins

  Broken, Empowering, Greed

  "Don’t Let the Robber Barons Fool You" by John Perkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2010.

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• I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

  David Copperfield

  Team, Knowing Everything, Challenges

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• In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

  Xavi

  Football, Winning, Results

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• True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Cities, Ideas, Creative

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• Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

  William Barrett

  Europe, Civilization, America

  William Barrett (2011). “Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy”, p.14, Anchor

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• If you do not clean up your sociaty now, therefore the legacy you have left for your children is nothing other than an unjust society.

  Khem Veasna

  Children, Unjust Society, Clean

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• A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

  Ernest Renan

  Spiritual, Peace, Memories

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• It is up to the people and boxing fans to give me the respect I deserve once I have finished my career. I personally do not think about my legacy.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

  Julian Sands

  Thinking, Magic, Acting

  "The Delightfully Prickly Julian Sands". Interview with Michelle Orange, www.ifc.com. August 3, 2009.

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• There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Death Of A Friend, Sorrow

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.377

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• That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Fall, Years

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• If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Memories, Tombstone

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching.

  Paul Samuelson

  Real, Teaching, Thinking

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• When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

  Clarence Day

  Police, Eras, England

  Clarence Day (1928). “Thoughts without words”

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• There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Biographies, Trouble, Early Life

  Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1917). “The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero”

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• The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Jobs, Cylinders, Wells

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

  Agesilaus II

  Memories, Remembrance, Done

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• 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

  Dad, Eye, Reality

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• Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can genuinely express the type of person we want to be, live the life we truly want to live, leave the legacy we desire.

  Brendon Burchard

  Live Life, Responsibility, Desire

  Brendon Burchard (2014). “The Motivation Manifesto”, p.27, Hay House, Inc

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• I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA. It is an extension of that legacy, and that's not going to start to diminish until black people have a new sense of themselves that isn't tied to slavery and feeling inferior. I think the church can be instrumental in that, in terms of repentance, reconciliation and just being more embracing of each other - not just on Sunday, but in life generally.

  David Oyelowo

  Believe, Sunday, Men

  Source: decentfilms.com

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• Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

  Ellery Sedgwick

  Two, Chapters, Autobiography

  "The Happy Profession". Book by Ellery Sedgwick, ch. 1, 1948.

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• The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

  Tim Jackson

  Thinking, Years, Festivals

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