Legacy Quotes - Page 8

• What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

  August Wilson

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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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• 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 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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• I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

  Donnie Yen

  Dragons, Behinds

  "Donnie Yen Exclusive Interview: Discussing ‘Dragon’ And The Censored Ending Audiences May Never See". Interview with Chris C. Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 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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• 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 3HO shall be the most important legacy on this planet for the Age of Aquarius. Sooner or later people will experience a tremendous amount of emptiness which always brings a void. A void brings unhappiness. Then people will want to find a place where they can be healthy, happy, and holy.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Aquarius, People, Healthy

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• In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.

  Frederick Soddy

  Running, Nature, Science

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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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• We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

  Paul Tsongas

  Children, Fundamentals, Guardian

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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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• We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

  Christine Gregoire

  People, And Love, Knows

  Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Country, Father, Space

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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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• As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

  Juan Williams

  Gun, Keys, Political

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Perspective

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

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• I care about my legacy that I'm leaving, not only for my fans, but for my wife and my children and my grandchildren. I want them to look back and say, 'He did it right and he stood up for what is right.'

  Josh Turner

  Children, Wife, Leaving

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• Today anywhere you go you will find that this is a living legacy which is not only for now, not only for the next one hundred years, but for the coming two thousand years of the Age of Aquarius, when mankind will find shelter in the 3HO way of life. And then, you who are here now, who are just considered to be a handful of people, shall be considered as the most Divine.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Years, Aquarius, Two

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