Legacy Quotes - Page 8

• What type of legacy do you want to leave?

  Marc Kielburger

  Want, Type

  Craig Kielburger, Marc Kielburger (2004). “Me to We: Turning Self-Help on Its Head”, [Mississauga, Ont.] : Wiley

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• To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Past, Giving

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.19, Best Books on

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• When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Sibling, School

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• And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

  Wangari Maathai

  War, Moving, Colonialism

  "Wangari Maathai Outlines 'Challenge For Africa'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 23, 2009.

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• Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

  Ziggy Marley

  Father, Thinking, Proud

  "Ziggy and Robbie Marley Talk About the Documentary MARLEY, Memories of Their Dad, and His Legacy". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 20, 2012.

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• This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kings, Opportunity, New Orleans

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• As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

  Marty Meehan

  Grateful, Hymns, Achievement

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• 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

  Grandchildren, College, Thinking

  "Nicki Minaj: Agent Provocateur". Interview with James Patrick Herman, www.elle.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Movement, Tiny

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• A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Rage, 1960s

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• I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

  Robert Smith

  Would Be, Want, Awful

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• Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

  Ellen G. White

  Dying, Miserable, Substitutes

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• Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.

  Richey Edwards

  Fear, Europe, Barbie

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• The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value

  Marmaduke Pickthall

  Wisdom, Islamic, Failing

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• His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.

  Cate Blanchett

  Memorable, Australia, Political

  Cate Blanchett's Speech at the State Memorial Service for Gough Whitlam at Sydney Town Hall, www.smh.com.au. November, 5 2014.

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• By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others.

  Joseph Lowery

  Children, Teaching, White

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• I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Fighting, Boxing, Checks

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• The Glory is the issue to me. Money comes and goes, but a legacy stays forever. I hate to lose

  Shane Mosley

  Hate, Issues, Boxing

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• When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

  Tim Reid

  Media, Leaving, Trying

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• Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Gifted Writers

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• Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.

  Jordana Brewster

  Yale, Lucky, Actresses

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

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• I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

  Johnny Winter

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Want

  "A Bluesman Looks Back, Through a Few Old Songs" by Andy Langer, www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2014.

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• We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration. People want to elevate him to some mythic level; they have their own reason for doing that.

  Danny Glover

  Military, Moving, Iran

  "Quotes: A Nation Reacts", www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2004.

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• My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you’re down, that doesn’t mean you’re down forever. You never let up.

  Chris Brown

  Mean, Forever, Fans

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