Legacy Quotes

‘No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.’ – Taylor Swift

‘No legacy is so rich as honesty.’ – William Shakespeare

‘The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.’ – Billy Graham

‘Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.’ – Dara Horn

‘Legacy is not what I did for myself. It’s what I’m doing for the next generation.’ – Vitor Belfort

‘True leaders don’t invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.’ – Myles Munroe

‘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

‘I don’t fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.’ – Khabib Nurmagomedov

‘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

‘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

‘All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.’ – Kanye West

‘Part of leaving your legacy is not worrying what everyone is saying about it.’ – Fabolous

‘What impact are you making, not only today, but for eternity? What impact are you making to leave a legacy?’ – Kirk Cousins

‘Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.’ – Bill Gates

‘We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.’ – Takeoff

‘Say, my father runs a business, and today my brother is running it for him. There are people who have worked with him for 30 years, but today, my brother is the boss. That’s not fair, but that’s what parents do, and that’s what a legacy is supposed to be.’ – Sargun Mehta

‘My legacy is that I stayed on course… from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.’ – Tina Turner

‘We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you’re still around after you’re gone.’ – David Lowery

‘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

‘I want to leave my own legacy and write my own story.’ – Ryan Garcia

‘That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.’ – Patti Davis

‘It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.’ – Christine Gregoire

‘Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God’s divine plan for your life. Don’t run from it.’ – Iman

‘My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.’ – Julia Morgan

‘Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we’ll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.’ – Serena Williams

”Let the music play on’ would be my legacy.’ – Lionel Richie

‘You live till you die, and that’s the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.’ – James Rosenquist

‘My legacy doesn’t matter. It isn’t important that I be remembered. It’s important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’ I want to finish strong.’ – James Dobson

‘It’s about legacy, it’s about moments, it’s about being an icon – I’ll do what I do and the money will flow.’ – Israel Adesanya

‘In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.’ – Barack Obama

‘I am deeply honored by the opportunity to lead Intel. We have amazing assets, tremendous talent, and an unmatched legacy of innovation and execution. I look forward to working with our leadership team and employees worldwide to continue our proud legacy while moving even faster into ultra-mobility to lead Intel into the next era.’ – Brian Krzanich

‘The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity’s attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.’ – Chris Hadfield

‘Children… are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God’s children.’ – Dirk Benedict

‘Your legacy lasts forever, the money does not.’ – Shawn Porter

‘I want to be remembered. I want to have a legacy. Van Gogh only sold one painting before he died, which would mean that he wasn’t famous when he was alive. But in 2017, I know who Van Gogh is.’ – J.I.D

‘Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.’ – Zac Goldsmith

‘It’s never a question of skin pigmentation. It’s never a question of just culture or sexual orientation or civilization. It’s what kind of human being you’re going to choose to be from your mama’s womb to the tomb and what kind of legacy will you leave.’ – Cornel West

‘You want to leave a legacy.’ – A. J. Green

‘Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.’ – James H. Douglas, Jr.

‘Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.’ – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

‘I’m trying to carry on my dad’s legacy, and it is tough.’ – Bindi Irwin

‘Nobody can ever truly replace Cristiano Ronaldo, because he was unique, a one-off, who created an unbelievably legacy of success at the club. But what I see in Vinicius is special too, I believe he is the best candidate in football to replace Cristiano and to conquer the world with Madrid.’ – Cafu

‘For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.’ – Joe Biden

‘I’m expected to do what’s right; I want to leave a legacy of positivity behind.’ – Angie Stone

‘For me, I just want to be a role model, put a positive impact on the kids that are watching the sport, that want to be a part of the sport, and leave a good everlasting impact on the sport, continue my legacy down the road.’ – Bubba Wallace

‘Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they’ve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy – not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.’ – Peter Diamandis

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

‘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?’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don’t run from challenges because that’s more comfortable and convenient.’ – Bryan Stevenson

‘I seriously think Bachchan is more Bengali than any one I know. He’s a true Bengali dada. And I’m not saying that because he has a Bengali wife or has spent time in Kolkata. There’s more of Rabindranath Tagore’s legacy in him than anyone else.’ – Rekha

‘Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.’ – Stewart Udall

‘I’m not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: ‘live-acy.’ I’m more interested in living.’ – John Glenn

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

‘I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.’ – Rajiv Ouseph

‘People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘The big picture goal is legacy. It’s knowing that when I’m done, what I’ve done has changed the industry in some way and made an impact in some way.’ – Tommaso Ciampa

‘You can be precious about something like ‘Blair Witch’ and say, ‘How dare you approach it as a sequel or remake’ or whatever, but its legacy was so tarnished by ‘Book of Shadows’ that someone had to come in and do something in the spirit of the original.’ – Adam Wingard

‘I have inherited my father’s responsibilities, not privileges. One of the members of his family had to continue his legacy of social responsibility.’ – Naveen Patnaik

‘I don’t like to use the word ‘legacy’ because it sounds a bit like I’m full of myself, but I am trying to see how far I can take myself, how far I can push being the best in the world.’ – Jason Day

‘I want to build a legacy at the WWE, but I definitely want to continue to grow the Bella Empire. I want it to go beyond the ring. I would love to be a motivational speaker.’ – Nikki Bella

‘We must continue to ensure that the legacy of the Greatest Generation is preserved and protected so that all Americans can work to embody the ideals and values of those that came before them.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘I don’t care about no boxing legacy. I don’t care where they put me on the list of all-time greats – let them put me at the bottom.’ – Roy Jones Jr.

‘You’re presuming too much by using the word legacy – presuming that someone is going to care.’ – Michael Bolton

‘I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music – gospel, blues, jazz and R&B – is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I’m telling you.’ – Quincy Jones

‘My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that’s your legacy.’ – Jan Brewer

‘Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.’ – Christina Baker Kline

‘I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I’ve gotten from so many of the adult elders.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘Handloom is a legacy, a craft which involves close to four million weavers in the country. They have to decide how they would like to position their wares in the domestic and global markets. We in the government will support their vision to the best of our abilities.’ – Smriti Irani

‘As Bob Marley says, ‘We must carry on.’ So he has left us a legacy of music to carry on for generations and generations into generations.’ – Rita Marley

‘When I got ‘forever’ tattooed on my throat, it meant that my legacy was going to live forever. So anything that I create, I do it because I believe it will live on, forever.’ – Skepta

‘History will dictate what my legacy is. And ‘maverick’ is fine, because I am.’ – Al Davis

‘People throw legacy and dynasty around a bit too much.’ – Robert Horry

‘If you’ve built your identity only on your professional accolades and awards, what is going to be left of your legacy when those trophies tarnish and those records get broken? The Great Ones understand the importance of being well-rounded.’ – Don Yaeger

‘This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.’ – Gareth Thomas

‘There is – and always will be – the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but I think that, at its best, this nation is capable of creating standards for itself and reaching towards those standards.’ – Kehinde Wiley

‘One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.’ – bell hooks

‘I don’t know that the United States is ‘God’s Country,’ but the church has been so strong here, and because of its influence, we hold life to be sacred and we believe that individuals have dignity. This is part of our legacy.’ – Rich Mullins

‘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

‘A legacy for me is being a piece of the soundtrack of someone’s life.’ – Brett Eldredge

‘I want to build a legacy.’ – Gervonta Davis

‘We, as Christians, have a legacy to leave, and it’s all about a love of Christ to permeate the music and reach the hearts of all of the people out there, that don’t know him and do know him.’ – Lauren Daigle

‘My legacy is that I will hustle and grind. No one will stop me from hustling. I’ll be where God wants me to be.’ – August Alsina

”Paris Is Burning’ was only just a glimpse into what was happening within the ballroom scene. The difference is that ‘Pose’ is opening the lens a little bit more, and it’s diving into the personal lives of these women who fought for their kids – who raised their kids to be strong individuals so that they can move on and have a legacy, too.’ – Mj Rodriguez

‘Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It’s something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn’t have to be in the arts exactly. I’m not really sure. But I don’t think you are born an icon.’ – Diana Ross

‘Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.’ – Narendra Modi

‘I want to leave a nice legacy.’ – Brian Lara

‘Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.’ – Richard Branson

‘My parents have left a legacy in our family of service to others.’ – Neil Bush

‘I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.’ – Janet Jackson

‘I want to leave my own legacy, make my own trail.’ – Christian Coleman

‘We spent the election campaign really canvassing where we were as a nation, deciding who had the mandate to change that up going forward. But I think the challenge for us will be, as with any government, your actions demonstrate your legacy.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.’ – Vasyl Lomachenko

‘My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn’t around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.’ – Bonnie Hammer

‘Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.’ – Kanye West

‘My legacy would be that you don’t have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.’ – Michael Kors

‘I’m proud of my father, but my pride cannot be fully measured by that snapshot in history. Because contrary to first glance, my father’s legacy comes not from his presiding over the final act in the drama of fighting for equal rights – his legacy is about setting the stage.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘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

‘I’m hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, ‘Well done: you’ve proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.” – Cory Booker

‘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

‘I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that’s Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Tracy K. Smith, Phillis Wheatley.’ – Amanda Gorman

‘The streets made me. They stay at me. There’s nothing that’s gonna take away from my legacy. I’m sorry. It is what it is. I’m dying this way. With the crown on my head, nobody can take nothing away from me. It is what it is. I am who I am. Bottom line.’ – Lil’ Kim

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

‘I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It’s been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.’ – Alan G. Poindexter

‘I’m also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I’m not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.’ – Richard MacDonald

‘The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history – of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet – this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.’ – Rick Larsen

‘I care about my legacy.’ – Khabib Nurmagomedov

‘Bill Clinton’s legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.’ – David Brock

‘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

‘I actually don’t hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, ‘How will this affect my legacy?” – David Stern

‘Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.’ – Paul Weyrich

‘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

‘I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don’t think it’s money. I don’t think it’s – I’m not saying that charity isn’t a great thing. I just think that it’s my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I’m lucky if I lost it all.’ – Michael Buble

‘It’s hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique. It’s my family. The fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes us closer.’ – John F. Kennedy Jr.

‘The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.’ – Cameron Russell

‘We have a legacy to uphold: the people who died so that we could have the right to vote; the people who sacrificed so that we would one day realize the dream of a black president.’ – Clementa C. Pinckney

‘I’ve been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old. I’m not sure you can have a legacy when you’re 25 years old. Even 37. I’d like to have to be, like, 70 to have a legacy. I’m not even 100 percent sure what the word even means.’ – Peyton Manning

‘I certainly hope ‘Dragon’ can leave some legacy behind.’ – Donnie Yen

‘November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should stop to think about our country’s beginning and that the United States would not exist if not for a great deal of sacrifice, blood, and tears by Indian Tribes across the country.’ – Deb Haaland

‘We have to make a living, sure, but it’s about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and what it stands for, what the fans are all about.’ – Johnny Van Zant

‘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

‘I never fought for money. I had a good career and legacy as featherweight champion.’ – Jose Aldo

‘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

‘The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there’s so much about our whole legacy that was stolen and that we lost in the Transatlantic slave trade that we’ll never find out.’ – Cheo Hodari Coker

‘Ashok Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand and now Dilip Kumar passed away. It is the end of an era. They all will not come back again. But their legacy will remain for years to come.’ – Manoj Kumar

‘What my mom’s legacy is representative of is beyond words.’ – Quincy Brown

‘Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity’s architectural legacy – the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space.’ – Martin Rees

‘We’ve done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality… You see it in the South, but it’s everywhere.’ – Bryan Stevenson

‘I think I was always so resistant to coloring my hair because, you know, when my dad was still alive, it’s so easy for a second- or third-generation wrestler to just copy their predecessor. The hardest thing you can do is try and carve out your own legacy.’ – Cody Rhodes

‘I don’t ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, ‘The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.’ The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.’ – Troy Baker

‘When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.’ – Jim Inhofe

‘Everybody fights for money, of course, but I wanted to leave a legacy when I retired, get my name in the history. I don’t think like that anymore. When I lost the belt, I saw how reality is. Champion means nothing.’ – Jose Aldo

‘A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather’s funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather’s life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.’ – Marvin Sapp

‘I look at brands like Ralph Lauren, who started in men’s ties, and Coco Chanel, who started in hats, and they’re now legacy brands. I want to get there Jewelry is just the beginning for us.’ – Kendra Scott

‘Did I really want to teach my children that a list of successes is the most valuable legacy to leave behind? I absolutely did not.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.’ – Kenny Marchant

‘My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy.’ – Dustin Poirier

‘I think change needs to be egoless. It’s not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It’s more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns – you know, building stuff.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan

‘I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn’t consume much time at all.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That’s how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it’s like to leave a legacy.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘It’s very important that people know that I really enjoy everything that has happened to me. And I tell my kids… you’re not going to be the tallest, fastest, prettiest, the best track runner, but you can be the nicest human being that someone has ever met in their life. And I just want to leave that legacy that being nice is a true treasure.’ – George Foreman

”The Ballad of Black Tom’ was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft’s legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.’ – Victor LaValle

‘I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents’ legacy.’ – Norman Finkelstein

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

‘There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.’ – Gore Vidal

‘What this man did, Fidel Castro, is he oppressed his people for nearly six decades. That legacy is firing squads. It’s poverty. It’s denying human rights.’ – Molly Qerim

‘I think everyone wants to have a legacy.’ – T. J. Watt

‘I hope that on my tombstone it says ‘Born 1933, died 2043.’ I hope that’s my legacy.’ – Quincy Jones

‘Leaving a legacy behind is huge.’ – Aaron Donald

‘The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty – and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.’ – Sarah Churchwell

‘I would love to be remembered as a wonderfully dynamic and multitalented actress who left a legacy through her work and through her life of helping people and of being a positive force in the world.’ – Keshia Knight Pulliam

‘I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That’s what makes me happy. I’m a very simple person, so that’s all I really need.’ – Parker Harris

‘I get asked a lot about my legacy. For me, it’s being a good teammate, having the respect of my teammates, having the respect of the coaches and players. That’s important to me.’ – Peyton Manning

‘Our goal is simple. It is to continue to inspire people through my father’s legacy. There is a lot of value in continuing to put that energy out into the consciousness.’ – Shannon Lee

‘If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father’s musical legacy, then I guess it would be a burden because it wouldn’t be natural to me to be dealing in music when my natural ability is in woodwork or whatever. But because my natural talent is also music, it kind of makes it much easier.’ – Stephen Marley

‘I’ll tell you my legacy: I wasn’t welcome. I was too small. I couldn’t play the game the way they wanted me to play the game. Sound like an uneven game to me. Put me on a level playing field, and I’ll show you.’ – Ben Wallace

‘I think the legacy Ronda leaves behind is that she changed women’s MMA.’ – Jose Aldo

‘That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people’s memories. In the end, that’s all a director can hope to do.’ – Peter Brook

‘I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the United States and throughout the Americas, including places like Haiti, the first black republic founded on the principles of anti-colonialism and black liberation.’ – Patrisse Cullors

‘For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society’s method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.’ – Judy Collins

‘I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, ‘I love you.’ I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I’ve done my job in a world that’s getting colder and colder by the day.’ – Lionel Richie

‘My art in my head just needs to come out for me – for my legacy and who I am.’ – Shawn Crahan

‘Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad’s footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.’ – Bindi Irwin

‘I want to leave a legacy behind that is undeniable.’ – Sami Zayn

‘You can do pretty much anything you want to do in America as a black, including become president. Still, the legacy of our victimization, of our suffering and exclusion from the mainstream of American life, has left its mark.’ – Shelby Steele

‘Ask any rapper or singer what artist they are an expert on. What artist are they looking to emulate, and really, what artist is the one person they are an expert on? You see, if you want any kind of longevity, if you want any kind of legacy, you need to know what ancestral line you are from.’ – KRS-One

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

‘I’ve written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘Recently, I read a quote which said that if a woman is beautiful, she’s called an Angel’ in English and a Bapu Bomma’ in Telugu. I think that sums up the legacy he has left behind.’ – Pranitha Subhash

‘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

‘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

‘You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.’ – Irving Kristol

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

‘People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud’s legacy itself.’ – Peter Gay

‘Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.’ – Chubby Checker

‘I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.’ – Hussein of Jordan

‘We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a ‘Jordanian model’ that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.’ – Hussein of Jordan

‘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

‘I don’t think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.’ – Ahmed Chalabi

‘The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.’ – Adam Schiff

‘I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.’ – Dante Hall

‘My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.’ – Sue Kelly

‘This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.’ – John Strachan

‘As an announcer, ‘The Price Is Right’ is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.’ – Randy West

‘As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.’ – Li Peng

‘The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players… and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game.’ – Sid Meier

‘With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.’ – Tom Glazer

‘In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.’ – Ron Kind

‘As we celebrate President Reagan’s remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit.’ – Jim Ramstad

‘I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.’ – Carol Moseley Braun

‘You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that’s a problem. It’s a fiscal problem for us.’ – Dennis Hastert

‘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

‘I don’t think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.’ – Kim Weston

‘If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.’ – Henry Reed

‘I don’t want to lose my name because that’s how I know myself. There is a legacy here.’ – Moon Unit Zappa

‘I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move.’ – Art Modell

‘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

‘What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.’ – Sepp Blatter

‘I didn’t get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.’ – Sanaa Lathan

‘Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.’ – Jim Costa

‘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

‘I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy, To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible.’ – Maria Menounos

‘It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.’ – Brandon Routh

‘I’m really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that’s in this character and you know.’ – Brandon Routh

‘I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded – as it were – well, and certainly the important issues of the ’50s – or even today – are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.’ – David Strathairn

‘If he’s chasing the full restoration of his legacy, he’s chasing something that he really can’t get.’ – Jim Lampley

‘This land, this water, this air, this planet – this is our legacy to our young.’ – Paul Tsongas

‘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

‘This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.’ – Esa-Pekka Salonen

‘I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you’re really setting yourself up for disappointment.’ – Michael Bolton

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

‘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.’ – Chrissie Hynde

‘The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.’ – Michael Feinstein

‘It’s my father’s legacy. My father’s view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they’re up to.’ – Jack Anderson

‘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’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

‘Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.’ – Christine O’Donnell

‘But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour’s legacy.’ – Liam Fox

‘I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of that movement to get our government spending under control, I think that would be a tremendous legacy to leave.’ – Ben Quayle

‘I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam’s fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.’ – Jay-Z

‘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

‘When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.’ – Chris Cornell

‘The Women’s Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I’m excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.’ – Angela Ruggiero

‘Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan’s true legacy, as I noted in ‘The Nation’ back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.’ – Eric Alterman

‘When I look towards my future, I want to leave a legacy that runs rich.’ – Kyle Shewfelt

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘I just want to complete my legacy.’ – Lennox Lewis

‘I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.’ – Bret Easton Ellis

‘I’m American. I’m eclectic. I’m going to follow my musical passions. And if people don’t like it, and it hurts my legacy, I’m not going to worry about that.’ – Renee Fleming

‘The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.’ – Ted Cruz

‘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

‘It’s about carrying on the legacy and doing something I love and have a passion for.’ – Nik Wallenda

‘You ask yourself, ‘What do you want your legacy to be?’ I’m content at this point to say, ‘Those who follow me.’ Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I’ve got a pretty good group, so far.’ – Bill Parcells

‘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

‘My work… is my legacy.’ – Patrick Swayze

‘In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.’ – Tim Cook

‘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

‘My legacy as governor was UConn and the cities. This is my passion. When I was governor, I would call Waterbury the center of the universe.’ – John Rowland

‘Certain people are like ‘Oh, here come the Feminazis!’ You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like ‘You’re the man haters!’ We’re always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don’t know if being nice is my legacy.’ – Kathleen Hanna

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

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

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

‘I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt – Gordon Brown’s legacy to millions of Britain’s families – will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.’ – Vince Cable

‘It’s humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you’re alive.’ – Laura Schlessinger

‘I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don’t get made.’ – David Oyelowo

‘The ‘Soul Train’ legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to ‘Soul Train’s’ millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.’ – Don Cornelius

‘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

‘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

‘I think that everything I’ve ever done at some point is part of someone else’s legacy.’ – Liev Schreiber

‘I don’t want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.’ – Warwick Davis

‘Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year’s Eve.’ – Fergie

‘I believe in legacy. And I believe in making the radio sound better. If I gotta listen to it, I want it to sound good.’ – Betty Wright

‘It absolutely helped – to write the father in both ‘Juicy’ and ‘Beasts,’ I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through – the fear, the frustration, the anger… the hope that he’ll leave a legacy.’ – Lucy Alibar

‘It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.’ – John Hodgman

‘The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That’s probably not a very postmodern thing to say.’ – Kate Atkinson

‘It’s more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I’m gone.’ – Eric Burdon

‘I’m attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I’m alive, I’ll still be its interpreter.’ – Roy Harper

‘It’s hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you’re lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.’ – Joyce Banda

‘Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what’s been done, what’s been superseded, what’s so much part of the furniture it’s practically part of the fabric now, what’s become no more than a joke… and so on. It’s just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.’ – Iain Banks

‘Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they’re not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile.’ – Sri Mulyani Indrawati

‘You can’t impose a legacy.’ – Iain Sinclair

‘I don’t even know how to spell ‘legacy!’ – Ronnie Dunn’ – Ronnie Dunn

‘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

‘She was green when green wasn’t in. From sea to shining sea, Lady Bird Johnson has left her legacy in a more beautiful America. From millions of trees and wildflowers planted, to interstates free from billboards and replaced with green.’ – David Mixner

‘I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one’s humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.’ – Naveen Jain

‘I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There’s something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I’d love to have that legacy.’ – Paloma Faith

‘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

‘It’s always great to add to your legacy.’ – Chris Jericho

‘I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.’ – Patrick Chan

‘In honor of Surgeon General Koop’s legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.’ – Richard Carmona

‘Let’s not forget, it was the government, Department of Finance and Central Bank that decided to unfairly land the taxpayers of this country with unmitigated losses of Anglo and massive legacy issues that would have been expected when nationalising a fraudulent bank.’ – Sean Quinn

‘Patrimonial capitalism’s legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.’ – James Surowiecki

‘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

‘Angela Davis’s legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover because she understood that the struggle for freedom was not only a struggle for political and individual rights but also for economic rights.’ – Henry Giroux

‘All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past – by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.’ – Gary Hamel

‘If you think about the market that we’re in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that’s happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.’ – Aaron Levie

‘I’m in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We’re the same person. I don’t know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.’ – Martha Wainwright

‘There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.’ – William A. Dembski

‘I don’t think about the Fonda legacy much.’ – Troy Garity

‘I’d like to be remembered as someone who made a difference in the lives of young people – that I nurtured someone and taught them to pursue their dreams and their careers, to leave a legacy.’ – Andre Leon Talley

‘If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do… We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.’ – Nathan Myhrvold

‘Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you’d do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.’ – John Collison

‘My mother’s songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I’d much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.’ – Rufus Wainwright

‘If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.’ – Eugene Jarecki

‘Ronald Reagan’s legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that they want to sell to the American public in the most appealing way possible. They often find the best way to do that is to package their product with the Reagan brand.’ – Eugene Jarecki

‘George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy – nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that’s the point driven home by Romney’s selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.’ – James McCartney

‘My legacy isn’t about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.’ – Warren Moon

‘Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.’ – Noel Gallagher

‘With a Nine Inch Nails show, I’m building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to push that forward, I have to reinvent myself, I have to feel current and valid.’ – Trent Reznor

‘I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I’ve never felt like I’m a role model. I’m not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I’ll be dead so it won’t matter.’ – Tavi Gevinson

‘Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody ‘Well, this is what hip hop is,’ instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years.’ – Afrika Bambaataa

‘Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn’t until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.’ – Jody Williams

”Jurassic’ is a legacy and a classic. Steven Spielberg created something pretty spectacular. It’s actually really interesting, when I look at it, I ask, ‘How has my life changed since being Lex?’ And I can literally walk into just about any city in the world and people will know who I am.’ – Ariana Richards

‘I’m just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it’s a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.’ – Chris Jordan

‘Whenever I feel like I’m getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them – and it always brings me back to reality.’ – Dwyane Wade

‘I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family’s legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.’ – Kristin Armstrong

‘Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one – that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.’ – Ratan Tata

‘I’ve got to sing for Pops; I’ve got to keep my father’s legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn’t let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy’s basement.’ – Mavis Staples

‘It’s very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it’s our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.’ – Suresh Raina

‘I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.’ – Karan Johar

‘I see what other people do and what songwriters don’t. They don’t get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else’s umbrella. If you’re building your own legacy, it can’t be under an umbrella.’ – Ester Dean

‘Like many Americans, I’ve always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn’t always agree with him – enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don’t have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.’ – Dick Cheney

‘The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.’ – Mike Pence

‘Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.’ – Lysette Anthony

‘This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation’s legacy.’ – Judith Rodin

‘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

‘I’m only an actor. I’m not a writer. I’m not going to leave any legacy. All I’ve ever done is learn the lines and say them.’ – Ian Mckellen

‘I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn’t no such thing as rock n’ roll. When I started with ‘Tutti Frutti,’ that’s when rock really started rocking.’ – Little Richard

‘My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.’ – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

‘With the new ways of getting music out, you don’t need a label if you’re a legacy artist.’ – Bonnie Raitt

‘I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.’ – Andrea Hirata

‘So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘I’m humbled to follow in the footsteps of Ed Feulner, who built the most important conservative institution in the nation. He has been a friend and mentor for years and I am honored to carry on his legacy of fighting for freedom.’ – Jim DeMint

‘I don’t want to make a mistake that would hurt the cause of Christ late in my life, so I’m going to do everything I can to bring many people to Christ. If he can use me in that regard through ‘Family Talk,’ that will be my greatest legacy.’ – James Dobson

‘Men’s memoirs are about answers; women’s memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn’t care less about legacy!’ – Isabel Allende

‘I think I’m an artistic radical, and I think I’ll be recognized as one. I’m a really good musician and a songwriter, but I think my real legacy will be as a radical.’ – Billy Corgan

‘I’ve dealt with losing close ones before, and I’ve been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it’s important to think about – not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you’re going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.’ – Scotty McCreery

‘I don’t think I deviated from what I’m all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.’ – Joe Paterno

‘Humanity’s legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: ‘He/she was born, lived, died.’ Probably that is the template of our stories – a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.’ – Doris Lessing

‘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

‘What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we’re using up our capital, so we’re dipping into our capital. We’re using up what should be our children’s and grandchildren’s legacy.’ – David Suzuki

‘I think most of my career has been built on conviction and the personality to carry that image or stride confidently on the catwalk. That was my beginning and, hopefully, my legacy.’ – Erin O’Connor

‘Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture’s greatest icons. As an artist myself, it’s impossible not to feel humbled by his body of work. Everyone who loves comics owes Jerry a debt of gratitude for the rich legacy that he leaves behind.’ – Jim Lee

‘I always felt that I had to leave a legacy on the African continent. As I was only the third player to come to the NBA from Africa, I felt I had to do my best to recruit more young Africans to come and play in the NBA – and also find a way to bring the NBA to Africa.’ – Dikembe Mutombo

‘Ultimately, I’d love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘I’d love to build a brand, a legacy.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Everybody getting a significant exit creates a legacy and creates something that you can pay forward and bootstrap an industry in a substantial way.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It’s so sad. There’s another obstacle for him to clear.’ – Monica Crowley

‘As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving – through our children.’ – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

‘Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can’t opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don’t know where she intends to drive it.’ – Barry Eisler

‘America’s legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘To honor the legacy of veterans and the democratic principles they fought for, I am glad that I introduced the Korean War Veterans Recognition Act which was enacted in 2009.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I’m going, and Twitter will get it, and if there’s a controversy, I can give my opinion. It’s easier to communicate.’ – Madhuri Dixit

‘Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.’ – Ann Demeulemeester

‘Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it’s unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics.’ – Eduardo Paes

‘Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world’s attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities.’ – Eduardo Paes

‘Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during the five-year run of ‘A Different World,’ and I don’t think you could have a better legacy than that.’ – Glynn Turman

‘Even a lame-duck president can be affected by a clear midterm message if he wants to see his vice president elected and preserve his historical legacy.’ – Noah Feldman

‘The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, ‘Anglo-Saxon’ embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored.’ – Martin Jacques

‘Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no alternative, regarded it as a legacy that had to be built on rather than rejected.’ – Martin Jacques

‘Blair – except at the edges – was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board while at the same time seeking to retain as much as possible of the Labour legacy, or ‘Labour values,’ as he would put it.’ – Martin Jacques

‘Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.’ – Blake Shelton

‘The people of Shishmaref want their community to survive, but they are holding on to their legacy by a very delicate thread indeed. The threat of their land disappearing is only the beginning.’ – Amy J. Berg

‘When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that’s part of Motley Crue’s legacy.’ – Nikki Sixx

‘Mumbai Indians will strive to build on our proud legacy of giving youngsters a platform to showcase their talent and realise their true potential.’ – Nita Ambani

‘What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.’ – Nita Ambani

‘It leaves a good legacy to have five records.’ – Theophilus London

‘The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘The images of Earth’s delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme’s most enduring legacy.’ – Martin Rees

‘Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and, frankly, better understand the innate cruelty of abortion and its horrific legacy – victims – while making us more determined than ever to protect the weakest and the most vulnerable.’ – Chris Smith

‘What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book – a key part of our planet’s cultural legacy.’ – Aaron Swartz

‘We must erase bin Laden’s ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act’s erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.’ – Aaron Swartz

‘One must remember that in the ’70s, Democrats still grasping for Camelot were desperately pinning their hopes on Teddy while Republicans were doing everything they could politically to turn him into a punch line post-Chappaquiddick. And the idea of Ted Kennedy – rather than the actual man – dominated his political legacy through the early ’90s.’ – Chuck Todd

‘A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who’s going to make it a better place?’ – Alexis Stewart

‘When you’re on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn’t do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by – legacy. Go about things the right way.’ – Kevin Love

‘I don’t think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I’ve always thought that’ll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.’ – Landon Donovan

‘Dorado Beach’s rich history provided amazing inspiration to put forward a bold menu celebrating the legacy of the people and cuisine that shaped this unique destination and to push me to share some of my own stories.’ – Jose Andres

‘The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you – and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy.’ – Jonathan Zittrain

‘It’s a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.’ – Djimon Hounsou

‘I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.’ – Joel Parkinson

‘There’s no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if ‘Man V Food’ is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose ‘Man V Food Nation’ is the legacy.’ – Adam Richman

‘I’ve always thought about my legacy – more so, though, my impact off the field and how I’m helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.’ – Larry Fitzgerald

‘Mom’s paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.’ – Benigno Aquino III

‘I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.’ – Benigno Aquino III

‘I think the legacy left behind by ‘Battlestar’ speaks for itself. I thought that these avid fans, most of whom were skeptical at first… to turn them into a fan of ‘Caprica’ as well is a daunting task, a big challenge.’ – Esai Morales

‘Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport venues were effectively located in countries that are no longer part of the federation. There is a strong argument for saying Sochi’s legacy will be this country will have winter sports facilities it did not have before.’ – Sebastian Coe

‘Michelle has had to grapple with Hilary Clinton’s legacy as First Lady… Michelle Obama never wants to be seen as the kind of First Lady who is overly involved in the West Wing.’ – Jodi Kantor

‘Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.’ – Jimmy Chamberlin

‘I don’t think about a legacy; I think about my life, because I’ve had quite an unpredictable life.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘In his time both on the field and on the sideline, Jack Pardee will forever be a part of the Washington Redskins’ legacy.’ – Daniel Snyder

‘We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.’ – Barack Obama

‘What you have in legacy countries is long-term insolvency.’ – Paul Singer

‘Sadness… reflecting on the proud legacy of trust and fair play on which Reliance Industries was founded by my visionary father Dhirubhai Ambani, and how far RIL appeared to have moved away from those original values.’ – Anil Ambani

‘I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.’ – Randy Bachman

‘I was thrilled to play a role on ‘Dora the Explorer,’ a show that has touched the lives of many children around the world, including my own child. Dora is such an iconic and important Latina heroine, and I’m proud to now be a part of the show’s ever-growing legacy.’ – Thalia

‘I think the Beach Boys’ legacy is ‘Fun, Fun, Fun,’ you know? We’re calling our next tour ’50 Years of Fun, Fun, Fun.’ By and large, the Beach Boys’ legacy is about incredibly positivity. We’ve traveled around the world and uplifted the spirits of hundreds of millions of people. Our sound is one of the most recognizable in all of music.’ – Mike Love

‘Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective.’ – Mike Love

‘The name ‘The Beach Boys’ is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me an exclusive license to tour as ‘The Beach Boys.’ With it, I’ve felt a great responsibility to uphold, honor and further our legacy.’ – Mike Love

‘I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.’ – Orhan Pamuk

‘I have this famous joke that I use: Why was God able to create Heaven and Earth in seven days and seven nights? Because he didn’t have installed customers and legacy technology to worry about.’ – Brad D. Smith

‘If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, ‘You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don’t believe in.’ I will never do that.’ – Gina Prince-Bythewood

‘We’re crafting versions of our TotalGuide Solution to work on both legacy devices as well as new and advanced boxes with varying levels of services based on the capabilities of the set-top box and network.’ – Alfred Amoroso

‘If it were my decision, I’d knock the Superdome down. If I couldn’t knock it down, I’d just open the roof and gut the whole inside – totally modernize it. If you just dust it off and paint a little bit but don’t reimage it, the legacy will be horrible.’ – Ray Nagin

‘I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don’t think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.’ – Bjorn Ulvaeus

‘I would have happily done ‘Bourne Legacy,’ but a lot of decisions are made for you.’ – Joel Edgerton

‘I’m never looking at life in terms of legacy.’ – Andrew Forrest

‘I decided to leave most of my wealth to my charitable foundation, which is not to be confused with my charity. My charity helps children directly. The charitable foundation will receive most of my legacy when I die.’ – John Caudwell

‘I think the biggest issue for legacy media – both TV and film – is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don’t work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest.’ – Shane Smith

‘I want our company to leave a legacy of learning to find the balance between what’s good and what’s good for you.’ – Nell Newman

‘What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.’ – Stewart Rahr

‘Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there’s nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.’ – Victoria Osteen

‘I had the chance to witness the evolution of the Nuclear Deal into Dr. Singh’s legacy as he assiduously, piece by piece, crafted the Indo-US nuclear deal against all odds, including risking his government.’ – Sunil Mittal

‘If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today.’ – Joyce Banda

‘I write in all sorts of places; it’s a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that’s my ideal place.’ – Jojo Moyes

‘As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.’ – Andrew Lansley

‘If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you may get stuck in a limited view of yourself. Instead, look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the divine, and bring forth your soul’s legacy into the present moment.’ – Debbie Ford

‘Imagine that your life’s efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.’ – Debbie Ford

‘I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy – and I had to deal with that reality or die.’ – Stephen Furst

‘For all of her influence on popular culture, and the remarkable performances she left behind, perhaps Farrah Fawcett’s greatest legacy was her raw, intimate, honest portrait of a woman fighting for her life – against cancer.’ – Alana Stewart

‘The story of mountaintop mining – why it happens, and what its consequences are – is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country’s physical legacy – the purple mountain majesties that are America – is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day.’ – Michael Shnayerson

‘I never in my wildest dreams thought I would get even one play at Indiana, let alone 25 years later, walk Bruin Walk, walk UCLA where Coach Wooden built his legacy.’ – Steve Alford

‘My dad dedicated his life to getting across the wildlife message, and I love that I can carry on his legacy. I want to make sure his message never dies.’ – Bindi Irwin

‘I’d like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad’s message – his legacy – lives on.’ – Bindi Irwin

”The Imitation Game’ is a celebration of Alan Turing’s life and legacy, and Joan’s final monologue is our eulogy. It’s the thing we all wished we could have said to him.’ – Graham Moore

‘We wanted to protect the legacy of DC Comics here in New York, and there are many things that make sense to protect and maintain while setting up parts of the organization in Los Angeles to grow.’ – Diane Nelson

‘Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor’s style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.’ – Eugene Kennedy

‘Oliver Queen/Green Arrow is a character whose core is about legacy and responsibility. And that all comes from his father and the responsibilities of living up to his legacy.’ – Jeff Lemire

‘Superman is such an old character. He’s an old character with this huge legacy behind him. And one of the awesome things about the fact that he’s been around for these decades is that he’s gone through these different phases.’ – Gene Luen Yang

‘When you work on a pre-existing character, when you end up getting invited to be part of a legacy character like Superman, I don’t feel like it would be true to the character if all I did was go in looking to express my own voice.’ – Gene Luen Yang

‘I come from a law enforcement family. My grandfather, William J. Comey, was a police officer. Pop Comey is one of my heroes. I have a picture of him on my wall in my office at the FBI, reminding me of the legacy I’ve inherited and that I must honor.’ – James Comey

‘I honestly thought that ‘Tangled’ was going to be my Disney legacy.’ – Roy Conli

‘Growing up with my father’s legacy, we never felt that we had to do anything, but we were always raised to think: What could be better than to explore the wonders of the world and share that with people? To try and make the world a better place. And I guess it stuck.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘Finn doesn’t have as much respect for Han’s legacy as everybody else does, and Han finds that a bit charming. They team up and go on a mission together. The banter is very choppy, and the dialogue is pretty funny. Chewie enjoys the banter and the friction between the two, but they definitely have each other’s backs.’ – John Boyega

‘I hope that when I’m 90 years old, I’ve accomplished a legacy that isn’t all about me. I hope it’s a legacy about the people who our foundation helps.’ – Tim Tebow

‘I hadn’t watched any Hitchcock movies when I made ‘Tom at the Farm,’ except for ‘Vertigo’ when I was 8 years old. I don’t have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.’ – Xavier Dolan

‘As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider’s view.’ – Jonathan Galassi

”Unexpected Legacy’ reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation’s first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.’ – Katie Hafner

‘Klitschko was the reigning champion for a decade and regarded by many as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. I’m never going to face another opponent with that legacy.’ – Tyson Fury

‘I don’t fight like Mike Tyson. I’m nothing at all like Mike Tyson. I’m out to build my own legacy and not live off anyone else’s name.’ – Tyson Fury

‘At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.’ – Iman

‘Much of my journey in Kazakhstan was about understanding the legacy of the Soviet times and finding out what remained of nomadic.’ – Tim Cope

‘It’s impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.’ – Jesse Kellerman

‘We wanted to talk about death in the DC Universe, and how some people go to get a pass and come back, and some people didn’t. That opened up a whole other topic about legacy. We wanted to talk about what was required to be a hero, what were the elements of true heroism?’ – Greg Rucka

‘It is interesting that both Chicano and Puerto Rican art in the United States form an important part of the Civil Rights legacy and dialog.’ – Mari Carmen Ramirez

‘I don’t remember Bill Walsh being old. I remember young Bill Walsh. He wasn’t gray-haired, and neither was I when we first met. His legacy will live on. Bill Walsh’s name and his accomplishments will be remembered and revered so long as the great game of football is played.’ – Marv Levy

‘The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘When you’re a model, you learn how to make the most of your assets – in my case, the smallish behind that is the legacy of my half-Japanese heritage.’ – Marie Helvin

‘Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It is a massive participation sport. You can do it as a challenge, for charity or whatever. I believe it will continue to grow, and I will look forward to that happening.’ – Alistair Brownlee

‘I’m all about leaving a legacy behind and trying to cement myself as one of the greats. I don’t just want to be remembered as the guy who beat Michael Phelps at the 2012 London Olympics – a one-hit wonder – I want to be an inspiration to the kids.’ – Chad le Clos

‘I am grateful for my father’s legacy. I am grateful to have found out who my real friends are. I am grateful for God’s guidance.’ – Grace Poe

‘Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.’ – William Clay Ford, Jr.

‘Defenders of Wilson are correct to beg for context when considering his legacy. But it is they who ignore the context: the role Wilson played in using war, including Haiti’s racist counterinsurgency, to nationalize white supremacy, militarism, and Christian evangelism.’ – Greg Grandin

‘If all Henry Kissinger contributed to the Middle East were a regional arms race, petrodollar addiction, Iranian radicalization, and the Tehran-Riyadh conflict, it would be bad enough. His legacy, however, is far worse than that: He has to answer for his role in the rise of political Islam.’ – Greg Grandin

‘It is our family’s hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X’s life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.’ – Ilyasah Shabazz

‘I think ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ can stand proudly in the pantheon of the great Disney animated films. It’s a fairy tale disguised as something more contemporary. With its balance of heart and comedy, it is still very much rooted in the Disney legacy.’ – Rich Moore

‘The Export-Import Bank’s long legacy of crony capitalism has hurt the livelihoods and businesses of many Americans who don’t get special treatment from this misguided government program.’ – Scott Garrett

‘I wholeheartedly believe that Andy Biggs is the right man to take up the legacy that Matt Salmon is leaving behind. I have worked with Andy for a number of years, and I have been impressed by his commitment to the Constitution and the principles of conservatism.’ – Trent Franks

‘The Vietnam War soured President Johnson’s legacy. We still have to recognize his domestic legacy.’ – Gene Green

‘We need a foreign policy that is both tough… and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.’ – Evan Bayh

‘The 2012 Olympics is a fantastic incentive for everyone to help leave a sporting legacy and show that Britain is truly a great sporting nation.’ – Bradley Wiggins

‘I want to leave a great legacy behind me and continue to win major championships.’ – Katie Taylor

‘I think my legacy will be in what most people don’t like about me: my style – the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I’m criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.’ – Joaquim Barbosa

‘I am very aware of my family name. I’m very aware of the legacy that that kind of carries with it. And I think that I didn’t want to lose any kind of hold of that. And I think once you’re born into something that you’re proud of and that you’re aware of, you don’t take it lightly.’ – Stella McCartney

‘It is a great honor to become Executive Producer of ‘Frontline.’ David Fanning’s mentorship and partnership over the past fifteen years has been extraordinary. I am inspired by his legacy and honored to guide ‘Frontline’s future.’ – Raney Aronson-Rath

‘I don’t want to build on someone else’s legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.’ – Duncan Jones

‘Every single place that’s brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am – from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.’s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn’s lyricism, and now Atlanta’s trap history.’ – Jidenna

‘I’m very conscious of Miguel Cotto’s career… I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.’ – Canelo Alvarez

‘I want to leave Cal with a winning legacy.’ – Jared Goff

‘The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.’ – Larry Hogan

‘It’s an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.’ – Zac Brown

‘Drew Brees, Kyle Orton, Curtis Painter – the recent legacy of quarterbacks at Purdue speaks for itself. I think it’s ‘Quarterback U.’ The facilities are just beautiful. I didn’t expect them to be as great as they were.’ – Chad Kelly

‘By deciding to live our lives based on solid values and unwavering truth, we can leave a legacy for the young men and boys who want nothing more than to follow in our footsteps.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.’ – Abby Wambach

‘I was always interested in having my own money – not my family’s money. I don’t think it had anything to do with me being Elvis’s granddaughter. None of my drive was, ‘I need to get away from my family legacy!” – Riley Keough

‘A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like memories of your childhood and the experience of your family.’ – Deborah Tannen

‘Posterity is something I’m a big fan of because that’s how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.’ – Jeremy Scott

‘My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father’s work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad’s legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s.’ – Keith Ellison

‘We all want to belong to something, and we all want to feel as though we have a legacy, and when you see two characters that have had that taken away from them, I think that just feels very real and very human.’ – Justin Kurzel

‘Johnny Cash’s legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be ‘integrity.’ He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n’ rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham’s friend.’ – Kris Kristofferson

‘Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.’ – Nathaniel Philbrick

‘I’m not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It’s me, and it’s important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn’t have a role model growing up.’ – Carli Lloyd

‘What you get when you elect Lisa Murkowski is you get somebody who builds on that legacy that Ted Stevens built for our state for 40 years that continues on that path, that trajectory, to helping a young state like Alaska build us out.’ – Lisa Murkowski

‘Bolivar’s legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He’s been a very prominent figure.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘When I came into this business, there was a bar set for me. My goal is to push it as high as I can to make my family’s legacy even stronger. To add to the history that’s already been created. So for me, it’s a huge challenge that I’m willing to fight for every single day.’ – Roman Reigns

‘I’m concerned with the future. I’m concerned with my life, my present, my friends, people I love, people who love me. I have no intention of taking on a legacy that wasn’t bestowed on me.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.’ – Tom Brady

‘The challenge is making sure that every single moment is honest, no matter what. It’s doing Eric Carter justice. Not trying to fill Jack Bauer’s shoes. Not trying to step into Kiefer’s legacy.’ – Corey Hawkins

‘With ’24: Legacy,’ there are a lot of people who are super-excited about the show. But there are a lot of people who are very skeptical.’ – Corey Hawkins

‘If you’re president, it’s often your court appointments that seal your legacy with a capital L.’ – Don Willett

‘Acting is in my family. My cousins, my sister, and I always say it’s a legacy that should be kept alive. In the future, it’s something I really want.’ – Hailey Baldwin

‘I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.’ – Rafael dos Anjos

‘To build my legacy and be that person I want to be, this is what it’s going to take: to get on the road and travel. Let’s do it that way.’ – Deontay Wilder

‘I don’t fight for my legacy or for the glory or anything like that. The feedback from the fans is nice, don’t get me wrong; it’s a good feeling having them – you on their side. But I’m motivated by making a good living for my family, and that’s what made me get serious about this.’ – Robbie Lawler

‘My legacy is so, so important to me.’ – Andre Ward

‘My legacy is almost like a personal challenge to go as far as I can go.’ – Andre Ward

‘Manny Pacquiao has a whole country behind him. His journey and his rise, from a career standpoint, he was fortunate to have a lot of great opponents and rivalries for years. People forget about Barrera and Morales and those guys. That’s how he built his legacy. Plus he had a country behind him.’ – Andre Ward

‘I talk to amateurs, up-and-coming guys, fighters older than me, and we compare notes to teach each other how to leave this game on top from a legacy and financial standpoint.’ – Andre Ward

‘My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.’ – Daniel Cormier

‘Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.’ – Daniel Cormier

‘It is absolutely ludicrous that abortion supporters would accuse a blood relative of Dr. King of hijacking the King legacy. Uncle Martin and my father, Rev. A. D. King were blood brothers. How can I hijack something that belongs to me? I am an heir to the King Family legacy.’ – Alveda King

‘Protest is OK. But protests, according to my King family legacy, should be peaceful.’ – Alveda King

‘Legacy is really important to me. It’s more important than dollars to me. So with that said, I try to find the fights that would solidify my legacy.’ – Tyron Woodley

‘I love Carrie Fisher, and it would be amazing to carry on her legacy.’ – Millie Bobby Brown

‘Here is the problem with legacy: You’ll sacrifice stuff that is not even yours to get it. Take President Obama’s Iran deal, when he gave the shirt off his back – and ours, too.’ – Greg Gutfeld

‘I really feel that I’ve carried on my mother’s legacy.’ – Kimberly Guilfoyle

‘I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I’ll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There’s more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that’s what it is.’ – Fat Joe

‘The greatest legacy that I can have is to build a brand that lives beyond me and stays true to the DNA of the brand.’ – Joseph Abboud

‘There is only one entity which I built, which is HCL. And the legacy which I want to leave behind that is in my name. There is only one thing which bears my name in the doorsteps – that is only the University and the foundation. And that legacy will not have a price tag.’ – Shiv Nadar

‘I want to leave behind a literary legacy.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘Reagan’s legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.’ – Chrystia Freeland

‘I don’t feel like I have a legacy.’ – Brad Paisley

‘I don’t care about my legacy. It’s too late. My enemies will create it, and they’ll push it.’ – Roger Ailes

‘I think Heaven and afterlife is for the living; it’s for the people that continue on and remember that person, and if you’ve done something that is substantial in your life then you can leave a legacy and do something positive.’ – Andy Biersack

‘Your legacy makes a difference.’ – Annie Ilonzeh

‘We will see about Obama’s legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.’ – Larry Wilmore

‘The only legacy I seek is the one that any grandparent seeks – that is, to hand off our nation… our fields and our farms to the next generation in better shape than we found it.’ – Sonny Perdue

‘I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich will continue.’ – Karen Handel

‘America’s space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation’s greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.’ – Alan Stern

‘If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.’ – Omari Hardwick

‘Gorbachev’s legacy is that he called time on communism, partially against his will, but in fact, he finished it off. Without violence. Without bloodshed. Beyond that, I am struggling to think of much else in terms of real legacy.’ – Helmut Kohl

‘The historical legacy of ‘The Best American Poetry’ is they’ve had very few editors who were not white. They’ve had very few instances where they’ve selected poems by non-white poets.’ – Jenny Zhang

‘The biggest and most interesting challenge is to bring Elsa Schiaparelli’s legacy to the present and the future. She had an exceptional, incredible, and intelligent approach; she was ahead of her times.’ – Marco Zanini

‘No matter how well you do in the regular season, it has to be capped off with a championship to really mark your legacy in the game.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘The one simple lesson to draw from President Obama’s legacy: do not start off with a compromise. They won’t meet you in the middle. Instead, what we need is an unapologetic progressive leader.’ – Chelsea Manning

‘I promised to carry on Jeff Session’s legacy of fighting for the conservative values we believe in. I promised to help pass the Trump agenda and serve the people’s interest, not the special interests. And I promised to help Donald Trump drain the swamp in Washington.’ – Luther Strange

‘You know, I think that anything you do at Apple… you feel a tremendous onus. You want to carry on the legacy of what it meant.’ – Angela Ahrendts

‘You don’t get to choose what your legacy is.’ – John Hickenlooper

‘You’ve just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you’ve gotta keep doing new material. It’s the future of any band.’ – Rickey Medlocke

‘I went to the Women’s Campaign School at Yale; I went to Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Training, women’s campaign fund training. I got to know the district really well by talking to the county chair, getting to know politics, working on some local races.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘Bloomberg is an overpriced legacy software system that subsidizes a money-losing media company.’ – Martin Shkreli

‘Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.’ – Chance The Rapper

‘Tuff Gong is the name of our father’s enterprise, and we’re continuing his legacy.’ – Rohan Marley

‘I’m happy I’m able to leave a legacy behind. I’m happy I was able to win a championship. I have no regrets about nothing.’ – Paul Pierce

‘Unifying the legacy SAG and AFTRA contracts was essential, and I am very pleased that we were able to achieve that.’ – Ken Howard

‘Every life a legacy, every small business a school.’ – Michael Gerber

‘I am profoundly indebted to the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose monumental contribution to the understanding of energy was taught to me by Philip Curcurruto, a man of simple wisdom and compassionate heart.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘A lot of people of color in the music industry are still more interested in embracing things that are considered white canon, and looking radical. Like when people point to punk in the indie world: If you point to the history of punk as what you see as your legacy, that’s more prized and praised.’ – Kelela

‘I remember the day I first heard what Timbaland and Aaliyah did – that intersection of her pretty voice and his weird, resonant production. I remember where I was and what I was doing. It was a major situation. We’re trying to continue that legacy.’ – Kelela

‘If I have a chance to make a larger amount of money in a legacy fight against the No. 1 welterweight in history, it makes sense for me to want that fight. You have a lot of pay-per-view money coming to this company. Why shouldn’t the champion partake in a piece of that pie?’ – Tyron Woodley

‘I want to leave a legacy behind. I want the chance to measure myself against the top guys and to have them bring out that champion within me in the Octagon.’ – Tyron Woodley

‘For me, it’s about the legacy, being the best fighter and a champion who takes all comers. I’m going to make more money outside the Octagon, after my career, than I make in it. But it’s making it difficult for me to achieve my goals when I have unnecessary stumbling blocks like my promoter saying damaging comments about me.’ – Tyron Woodley

‘For the first two weeks after he passed, we were done as a band. We were just done. And because of the fans and Jimmy’s parents and relatives and stuff like that, they just demanded that we continue on and spread the legacy that is, you know, the crazy James ‘The Rev’ Sullivan.’ – Synyster Gates

‘I personally adore the festival of Dussehra, as its a celebration of our culture and mythological legacy. I celebrate, almost, all my festivals with Life OK, be it Holi or Diwali or Dussehra. It’s like a festive home for me.’ – Rithvik Dhanjani

‘My teaching is my legacy.’ – Anderson Silva

‘I don’t believe in legacy. I feel that the ‘mega’ tag definitely acts as a platform, but after that, it’s all on the individual. Legacy does not mean a crown that is passed on; we have to create our own paths.’ – Allu Arjun

‘Years down the line, when people look at my filmography, I’d like them to see a legacy of new-age content films.’ – Sidharth Malhotra

‘Whatever I’m going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy.’ – Bob Weir

‘We are well-positioned to continue my father’s legacy and move these businesses forward in the future.’ – Linda Johnson Rice

‘My father’s legacy is bigger than a building. It really is a tremendous business that he’s built.’ – Linda Johnson Rice

‘I find it reprehensible that anyone would seek to denigrate the legacy of Dr. King in any way.’ – Jesse White

‘Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev. And his crimes were even more explicitly exposed by Mikhail Gorbachev during the late ’80s. Yet to many, Stalin remains more legitimate as a Russian leader than anyone since.’ – Simon Sebag Montefiore

‘I didn’t want to have to follow ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ with another sitcom. Let it be my sitcom legacy, and leave it at that.’ – Ray Romano

‘If I leave any legacy behind, it’s just the idea, just the theory that you admit to your ambitions, and you don’t let people tell you you’re wrong to have those ambitions.’ – Mikaela Shiffrin

‘You think about the legacy that you leave behind, and I’ve been very fortunate to be part of a very successful team, but I think the fight for equal pay and respect is something that goes beyond the field. I think it is very important, something that I’m very willing to take on to help the generations that come behind me.’ – Becky Sauerbrunn

‘We have defeated Gaddafi on the battlefield; now we must defeat him in our imagination. We must not allow his legacy to corrupt our dream. Let’s keep focused on the true prize: unity, democracy, and the rule of law. Let’s not seek revenge; that would diminish our future.’ – Hisham Matar

‘It is such a joy to join a legacy of amazing female playwrights who have managed to break through the glass ceiling and reinvigorate the Broadway stage by bringing a fresh and necessary perspective.’ – Lynn Nottage

‘A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience.’ – Julie Plec

‘I hope that people will one day look back at my skating and what I brought to the table. ‘Remember when Patrick skated like this? Or remember when skating was like this?’ That would be a cool legacy to leave behind.’ – Patrick Chan

‘In defence of Madiba’s legacy, we will continue to wage a relentless war on corruption and mismanagement of the resources of our country.’ – Cyril Ramaphosa

‘Women come up to us all the time and give us the most amazing compliments, like, ‘Salt-N-Pepa was the soundtrack of my life.’ They remind us that we meant so much to them. Sometimes artists don’t really grasp that. But when you talk to fans, you get in touch with your legacy.’ – Pepa

‘From avoiding littering to encouraging local economy, there is a lot each one of us can do that will go a long way in keeping the country’s cultural legacy intact.’ – Shenaz Treasury

‘I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that’s their legacy. Not the other petty stuff.’ – Ryan Murphy

‘As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to touch people for years to come.’ – Khalid

‘All films that I have done, this legacy, is a like a dream come true for me.’ – Sridevi

‘I didn’t even know I had a legacy.’ – Melvin Van Peebles

”Dynasty’ is such an appealing title in and of itself, not even knowing about the original series. It’s a word that evokes power and legacy and a certain level of epic-ness.’ – Sallie Patrick

”British Vogue’ is a great magazine with a legacy of creativity and innovation.’ – Edward Enninful

‘I realise I am stepping into the shoes of a hugely respected editor in the shape of Alexandra Shulman, someone who has chosen to leave at the top of their game with a legacy of 25 years of success.’ – Edward Enninful

‘I hope that people will say that ‘she told the truth, she told her truth, she wasn’t afraid to live her truth, and she wasn’t afraid to live her truth out loud.’ That’s what I want my legacy to look like.’ – Lena Waithe

‘Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a piece of fiction.’ – Jesmyn Ward

‘I am very happy working for my European brands. My legacy isn’t going to be a museum. Yet I would be very good at it. It’s so painful. It’s like everything – the same old guys – Herzog & de Meuron, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano – they don’t pick original people.’ – Peter Marino

‘Graham’s legacy is not as a maverick or a trailblazer. It is the legacy of a man who used Jesus as a tool to placate the masses so that the status quo of conservative white America could remain firmly in place.’ – Anthea Butler

‘Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind’s urban culture?’ – Ma Yansong

‘The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical country. They also were slaveowners – which is confusing to their legacy. How could such brilliant men have only secured freedom for themselves, but not their wives or their slaves?’ – Andy Dunn

‘The only way to honor Steve and his legacy and everything he lived for was to try to continue his work and expand on it.’ – Terri Irwin

‘You’ve got to keep being 100 percent, keep doing what’s best for you and your legacy, and then build and help other people around you, too.’ – Big K.R.I.T.

‘The thing I think is often misunderstood about Ripple is people say, ‘Oh, Ripple is a centralized platform.’ To me, this is a legacy perspective. Ripple’s technology, IRP, is open source; XRP Ledger is open source.’ – Brad Garlinghouse

‘When you think about the impact and the legacy that ‘Monday Night Raw’ has had on the media, entertainment, and sports worlds, it’s significant.’ – Stephanie McMahon

‘I’ve been given the opportunity to carry forward the legacy with which people associate me; I can’t escape it even if I don’t like it. I take pride in carrying forward what’s been given to me.’ – N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.

‘What’s success all about? What’s philanthropy all about? Let’s think of our legacy, following in the footsteps of some great Americans like the Carnegies and the Mellons who used their wealth for quality purposes.’ – Norman Braman

‘Technology is the perfect refuge for African capability stifled elsewhere by badly run governments and years of misplaced foreign aid. Ubiquitous connectivity in a world without legacy infrastructure, together with the potential to learn coding or anything else online, has allowed technology entrepreneurship to flourish.’ – Ory Okolloh

‘What’s most exciting about the ‘Cobra Kai’ series is that it pays homage to the legacy; it has the nostalgia sprinkled throughout, the callbacks to all the stuff the fans would want to see. It has a completely fresh, relevant angle into the next generation.’ – Ralph Macchio

‘I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.’ – Peggy Whitson

‘The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide care work, unpaid, for white families.’ – Alicia Garza

‘We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.’ – Jake Tapper

‘Your body is a vessel. It doesn’t really matter. It’s what you leave here and how you influence other people’s lives – that’s what legacy you’ll leave behind.’ – Lauren Wasser

‘I’m the last senior executive who was hired by Roy Vagelos. It’s an honor, but it also imposes upon me an obligation not only to think about his legacy but also about this company’s legacy.’ – Kenneth Frazier

‘My legacy is that Merck continues to do what Merck has always done, which is to make singular impact on human health and animal health around the world. It’s that simple.’ – Kenneth Frazier

‘Leaving a legacy beyond just playing football has become extremely important to me.’ – Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

‘On occasion, terrorists will succeed despite our best efforts. That is part of the legacy of 9/11. But 9/11 also shows us that while terrorists can destroy, they are unable to create.’ – Richard N. Haass

‘To be sure, many of the Sykes-Picot borders reflected deals cut in Europe rather than local demographic or historical realities. But that hardly makes the Middle East unique: Most borders around the world owe their legacy less to thoughtful design or popular choice than to some mixture of violence, ambition, geography, and chance.’ – Richard N. Haass

‘There has been an intention since day one that it’s as important to us that we build profits as much as we build a wonderful culture and a lasting legacy of a great company. We’ve created this inclusive environment that’s very thoughtful in terms of how we can create allyship, how we create mentorship, and what kind of voices are heard.’ – Julia Hartz

‘I am part of a legacy of queer black women who have fought for the freedom of black people across the globe.’ – Patrisse Cullors

‘I’ve shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I’m gone, that I am different.’ – Bernard Hopkins

‘People like to act like we don’t have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that we can’t change it unless we address that.’ – DeRay Mckesson

‘Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.’ – Opal Tometi

‘With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman who refused to surrender the reigns of what she knew to be her assignment, even when male civil rights and business leaders tried to convince her that she should leave the work of building her husband’s legacy to them.’ – Bernice King

‘As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.’ – Bernice King

‘I would say growing up in Nashville has been a huge influence in my music. Growing up with my dad being a 2-time Grammy-winner, BMI songwriter of the year for five consecutive years in a row, and having the legacy he has is definitely a huge influence, too.’ – Chord Overstreet

‘I have a history, and I am proud of my legacy as a songwriter, all of the songs that I’ve brought forth into our culture. I’m proud of that.’ – Rodney Crowell

‘If you go to talk to Disney about anything related to Mickey Mouse, if you can even get the meeting, you’re going to get 50 people in that room. That is the crown jewel of their brand, and so they protect it. And so for better or worse, the crown jewel of my legacy still remains Steve Urkel and Stefan Urquelle.’ – Jaleel White

‘When I’m done my mixed martial arts career, the only people who are gonna remember me and respect what I did and how I lived my life are my two children. That’s my legacy, ladies and gentlemen.’ – Demetrious Johnson

‘I hope our legacy will be enduring and that people think of us as an important band. But I think Ricky’s guitar playing, our style of writing, the fact that we had men and women in the band and gay and straight, I think it’s an important band, and the way we wrote by jamming, we really had a different approach.’ – Kate Pierson

‘It is time to kickstart a new U.S. space transportation industry and time to spread that industry into space itself, leveraging our space station legacy to ignite imaginations and entrepreneurship so that we can move farther out, back to the Moon, out to the asteroids, and on to Mars.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘There are a lot of people – and time does this – who are going to be severely embarrassed for their bias and intolerance. And they’re going to have to live with that; that’s going to be their legacy. I refuse to have that as part of my legacy.’ – Michael Buble

‘I’m just lucky to be working; I’m not trying to leave a legacy.’ – Shaun Evans

‘Many Virginia Republicans would rather work with Democrats to assist the Kaine-Clinton-McAuliffe agenda than work with a conservative like me to block Obamacare’s failed legacy in Virginia.’ – Corey Stewart

‘In the years between ‘Afterlight’ and ‘Legacy,’ we see a Zu who has watched all of her older friends head out into the world to do meaningful work while she’s made to wait and hang back because of her age. It reinforces a feeling in her that she’s falling further and further behind and won’t ever catch up to them.’ – Alexandra Bracken

‘As with any season, there are plenty of people who would have made fabulous winners, and I just hope to honor the legacy of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ and I hope to continue to make my fans, my friends, my family, and my sisters from my season proud.’ – Aquaria

‘I guarantee you that Leonardo Prince is doing nothing but listening to the ‘Tron: Legacy’ soundtrack on loop. And he’s probably seen ‘Tron: Legacy’ twice, or three times. And the other two times, he’s taken people who he thinks are important to him, and judged by their reaction to see if he should still be friends with them or not.’ – Baron Vaughn

‘A critical part of our relationship with Laos involves addressing the legacy of war.’ – Ben Rhodes

‘I’m hoping that the legacy of ‘Girlfriends’ is just that you can enjoy and connect to Joan, Maya, Toni, Lynn, and William and see your humanity reflected in theirs. That’s what I’m hoping that it did.’ – Mara Brock Akil

‘I think Ric Flair has been tarnishing his legacy since 1990 – he has done more to tarnish his career then anything I could have said or did, then anybody could have said or did.’ – Shane Douglas

‘Vince McMahon could care less about the ECW legacy.’ – Shane Douglas

‘A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people’s legacy starts late or starts early, or they last a long time or a short amount of time. As a musician, I’ve never taken an approach of wanting to try to control that because I don’t think that I can.’ – Kamasi Washington

‘I have been a stalwart advocate for the legacy of Charles White. I have said it so often, it could go without saying. I have always believed that his work should be seen wherever great pictures are collected and made available to art-loving audiences.’ – Kerry James Marshall

‘I want to create a different kind of legacy.’ – Goapele

‘I think my legacy is important because my songs – perhaps more than those of any other songwriter I know – cover every movement from 1965 on, socially and artistically. If you want songs about ecology, I’ve got ecology songs; if you want songs about spirituality, I’ve got spiritual songs.’ – Donovan

‘Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life’s legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real way to approach that question of legacy honestly.’ – Mark Manson

‘I can say with some confidence that President Zardari’s legacy will be written in golden words. I don’t say this as his son, or patron-and-chief of the Pakistan People’s Party – but as a student of history.’ – Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

‘I think when people talk about race relations in America, they talk about African-American and white people. Asians are not often brought into the conversation. But there’s a historical legacy of issues between them. It’s hard to be like, ‘What about us?’ But we are a little underrepresented.’ – Ronny Chieng

‘I’m hungry in the ways that every artist is, but I also have this extra layer. I’ve done a lot of things that were consciously not for money, but because I’m so convinced I’m going to die in my mid-30s, I’m like, ‘That’s not what’s important. Doing cool stuff and having that legacy is what’s important.” – Chris Gethard

‘I want to cement my own legacy and, most importantly, motivate the youth of India and make all of India proud.’ – Jinder Mahal

‘Legacy? I’m a worker in the factory; all we care about is today! A legacy… what a bunch of baloney.’ – Bill Cunningham

‘As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires – in Africa. We think of those empires as history, but actually, they still haunt our everyday lives in the strangest of ways.’ – Adam Curtis

‘Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, myself, and even Bill Goldberg, for crying out loud, main-eventing Wrestlemania. That is WCW’s legacy.’ – Eric Bischoff

‘I’ve made classic records, and going into making ‘R.A.P. Music,’ I was determined to top the entire legacy of the ‘Pledge’ series, and the fact that I won a Grammy, and the fact that I was associated with OutKast, and the fact that I’m a Dungeon Family member.’ – Killer Mike

‘Making important medicine more available and affordable is a great thing for the country, and Netmeds is one the mainstays in the space. They have a long legacy in the pharma business, and they are making it easier for people to stay healthy.’ – MS Dhoni

‘Fidel’s oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.’ – Bob Menendez

‘I think the beautiful part about Yao is that his main legacy won’t be about the game. His legacy will be about helping people. His legacy will be taking on important world causes to better his world.’ – Jeff Van Gundy

‘Every fighter thinks about their legacy, and I’m not any different.’ – Vasyl Lomachenko

‘When people look back at my career, I want them to see a fierce competitor, but more importantly, I want to be remembered for my consistency of character and the legacy I hope to leave through my First Things First Foundation.’ – Kurt Warner

‘People think about history as all grand gestures or significant moments, but the most valuable lesson we can learn is the enduring legacy of the small, meaningful things in life.’ – Deborah Harkness

”Drag Race’ is a movement. I’ll be forever grateful that I left my legacy.’ – Alyssa Edwards

‘I want to be the first female to main-event WrestleMania, and I just want to continue to get better and better and continue my dad’s legacy.’ – Charlotte Flair

‘I do want to carry on my dad’s legacy, but I also want to carve out my own path. I have to work harder, I think, just because I do have that last name. I don’t want people to think that’s why I am where I am in this industry. I put in the time, and I want to be just as good as my dad was.’ – Charlotte Flair

‘Charlotte Flair is continuing her father’s legacy but paving her own, and she’s opening the door for women all over the world to be superstars in a male dominated industry.’ – Charlotte Flair

‘I think I definitely work out of my father’s shadow, but it was hard in the beginning. But I would never change my last name, and I couldn’t be more proud to carry on his legacy.’ – Charlotte Flair

‘I’m not capable of being in a group where I’m not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.’ – Cody Rhodes

‘My father’s legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.’ – Meghan McCain

‘When I’m 100 years old, if I make it that long, when I die, probably the first tag line will be John McCain’s daughter, and I’m so proud of him and proud of my family’s legacy and our life, so I don’t have a problem with it.’ – Meghan McCain

‘I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there’s a lot of history there.’ – Metro Boomin

‘I just look at what’s ahead of me. I don’t think about, ‘For my legacy, I need to do this, this, and this.’ I just focus on every fight and how to win that fight.’ – Cain Velasquez

‘I want to say thank you Arsene Wenger for your legacy. For all the coaches in the world, he is a reference. We learned, I learned from him all the things in football.’ – Unai Emery

‘I’ve already overcome a lot of things in my career, and if I don’t fight in the UFC anymore, for sure I’m gonna find other ways to keep growing my legacy.’ – Cris Cyborg

‘It’s a legacy thing, and when it’s all said and done, I want to leave a legacy in whatever way. If not, if it’s helping the division, if it’s fighting big names, I just want to be remembered as one of the greatest all-time to ever do this in the sport. That’s just what I want to do.’ – Max Holloway

‘My legacy is secure.’ – Tony Bellew

‘I’ve dedicated a lot of my life to running the Bruce Lee businesses and continuing his legacy. Some people say I’m doing that to make money or to emulate him. That couldn’t be further from the truth; I do it because I’m inspired by his message.’ – Shannon Lee

‘We preserve the legacy of my father through an education approach. We award scholarships. We do classes at schools about my father’s philosophy and life.’ – Shannon Lee

‘Legacy is something you talk about when you’re dead – and I’m not dead yet.’ – Mike Patton

‘You want to be part of something like that, that’s something bigger than yourself, that’s something you leave a legacy of being part of something special.’ – Saquon Barkley

‘I recorded songs with a great deal of meaning, songs of lasting material. That’s the legacy I want to leave behind – a legacy of love.’ – Engelbert Humperdinck

‘To me, it’s what WWE is: the history, the legacy, all the women who come before this. From Mae Young onwards, their legacy lives forever.’ – Triple H

‘No disrespect to Ugas. He’s a great fighter, and he’s ranked in the IBF, so I’m gonna have to fight him. But, you know, I’m looking to build my legacy and me beating Ugas is not gonna get me anywhere.’ – Errol Spence Jr.

‘I do believe my legacy outside of the Octagon is just as good as it is inside of it.’ – Vitor Belfort

‘How many fighters are going to be able to leave the legacy that I did? Nineteen years old, I came and I conquered.’ – Vitor Belfort

‘My time and my legacy with Dream Theater will always be a part of me. It’s something I’ll always be proud of.’ – Mike Portnoy

‘Russell Westbrook, giving $1 million to UCLA, it’s noble. It’s recognizable. It’s something that’s going to create a legacy for his name for years to come. It’s philanthropic work.’ – Jalen Rose

‘As you get older, sometimes you lose touch with people you were friends with in high school and college. But when you’ve been part of a legacy together, you should still find a way to see eye to eye.’ – Jalen Rose

‘I really think, Charlotte Flair, come on, her legacy is going to be cemented throughout the years. That’s just a given!’ – Booker T

‘As we face the headwinds of our troubled and turbulent times, let us always be inspired by the legacy of Kofi Annan – and guided by the knowledge that he will continue speaking to us, urging us on toward the goals to which he dedicated his life and truly moved our world.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘We treat each album as our traces and our legacy.’ – CL

‘True fans will appreciate what I’ve done and the legacy I’ve left.’ – Petr Cech

‘I’ve always felt that as long as I was able, I was supposed to give all I’ve got to ensure a healthy and loving legacy for those still to come, and especially for those with no voice.’ – Julia Butterfly Hill

‘I want to leave a legacy, but to do that, I need to be on my best game.’ – David Haye

‘My father had an amazing legacy, and so does my mother. I wanted to be able to have both names there. In my personal life, it’s Evan Naess. In my career life, it’s Evan Ross.’ – Evan Ross

‘You can’t understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we’re still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.’ – Pete Buttigieg

‘At some point in your life, you need to sit down and say, ‘What do I want to do? How do I want to be remembered? What’s my legacy? And what’s important to me?” – Grigor Dimitrov

‘Labour’s disastrous legacy and the Conservative success did not happen by accident: it was about the choices each party made, choices that impact on everyone.’ – Esther McVey

‘A lot of people abroad know Lula’s campaigns against poverty and hunger, but he had a tremendous legacy in education too. He invested 2 percent of GDP, more than other administration, putting the PT’s education programs in motion.’ – Fernando Haddad

‘Many small business owners want to pass their family legacy on to their kids and grandkids, but they are turned over to vulture funds because the family may be asset rich but lacks the cash to pay the estate taxes. I have met people who literally sold the farm to pay the taxes.’ – Stephen Moore

‘Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘My most important legacy is being a good father to my two children.’ – Scott Hall

‘What I’m doing with the NWO is for me, for my family, so I can leave a legacy for my kids.’ – Scott Hall

‘I’m looking forward to wrestling Tony Nese, defending my title, and cementing my legacy as the greatest cruiserweight of all time.’ – Buddy Murphy

‘I think about legacy, of course. I don’t want to make my life nothing. I want to know that I died and made a massive difference. I want to know that my life purpose was bigger than myself, and I want to pay forward because the amount of people that have helped me… the list of people that have contributed to where I am now is insane.’ – Jessie Reyez

‘I think of legacy: I want plaques on the wall. I want a farm for my dad. I want an orphanage, preferably two, named after my mother. I want to positively and tangibly help the lives of millions of people and die a legend.’ – Jessie Reyez

‘I don’t want to retire on the independent scene. I don’t want my legacy to be remembered as that.’ – Mickie James

”Hindu terrorism’ is not even a word. By linking Hindu with terrorism, Congress has disrespected the country’s culture, tradition, and legacy. It should apologise to the nation.’ – Yogi Adityanath

‘The people of Orissa had unmatched love and respect for Bijubabu. There is no way that you can wish away his legacy.’ – Naveen Patnaik

‘No albums are better or worse than each other, and they’re all important to our legacy and our story.’ – Shawn Crahan

‘That’s a really important legacy for me: to work hard and be kind to other human beings.’ – Jacob Anderson

‘I want my lasting legacy to be that I was a good wrestler but a better person. I want people to remember me as a good dude. I think that’s very important.’ – Johnny Gargano

‘When I leave the NBA, I don’t want my legacy to be, ‘He won a championship ring.’ I want my legacy to say, ‘He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.” – Gilbert Arenas

‘Citizens know the legacy of misrule of the Congress – an economy in doldrums and an administration full of leakages.’ – Smriti Irani

‘I have a legacy which I carry from my media career. That is why you will find that everybody will have an opinion about me.’ – Smriti Irani

‘Visva-Bharati has a glorious legacy.’ – Smriti Irani

‘In her second career as a minister, my mother defied a legacy of chauvinism to become a leader of our community, overseeing a church that served as a hub, offering parenting classes, a food pantry, after-school programming, and – in the wake of Hurricane Katrina – a lifeline to those ravaged by loss.’ – Stacey Abrams

‘I am extremely proud that our cinema is being recognised in the West. I want Indian cinema to get its dignity, not by giving them the kind of films they expect from us, but by making cinema in a way that carries the legacy of the mainstream masters forward.’ – Sanjay Leela Bhansali

‘This is why people love to watch me, is because I fight. I’m here to fight. I’m not here trying to protect anything, not trying to protect a legacy or anything. I’m here to fight.’ – Urijah Faber

‘I’ve tried to avoid the rock & roll highway and have taken the scenic route. I think all the guys have been more concerned with the music and the band’s legacy than with the commercial aspects of life.’ – Ian Gillan

‘Every year I win, everything I do, it cements my legacy.’ – Jordan Burroughs

‘I think that’s the one thing we all hope for in this life is we leave something of a legacy, that’s meaningful to someone else, when we leave here.’ – Michael McDonald

‘I think our legacy will always be there. My brothers and I have carved a path for all taekwondo players, not just in the U.S.’ – Diana Lopez

‘I’m just tired of the unethical people, the scumbags, all that. Maybe that’s how all businesses are run, but in MMA, I’ve been in the UFC, Legacy, and Bellator. The UFC was the best, and even they didn’t treat you that well.’ – Matt Riddle

‘Every fighter, when they box, wants to leave a mark in their sport, or a legacy, and I managed to do that beyond my wildest dreams.’ – Joe Calzaghe

‘There’ll never be another Muhammad Ali. He was a superstar. And although he has gone, his legacy will live on for what he has done for sport and humanity.’ – Joe Calzaghe

‘Our legacy platforms have served us well for decades, but we’re running out of upgrades that will keep us ahead. Technology is changing too fast, and our enemies are too adaptable.’ – Mark Esper

‘As an artist, you can work to make money, or you can be an artist who thinks about their legacy.’ – Anthony Ramos

‘I can promise you this: I will be the greatest woman to ever enter WWE, and I will leave the greatest legacy that WWE has ever seen.’ – Lana

‘For us, winning the World Cup is not enough. If you come into the squad, you are not just here for the moment, but you’re building that legacy for the next generation.’ – Millie Bright

‘The common vision is winning – and winning a World Cup. We have a three-year plan – win the World Cup, win the Olympics, win the Euros – and the common agreement is you want to create a legacy and win the World Cup; then, everything else falls into place.’ – Phil Neville

‘You look at right-to-work states: a lot of car companies are relocating down to the South so they don’t have to deal with the unions or the legacy cost or any of those things, and that’s what manufacturing’s done.’ – John Layfield

‘It’s about leaving a legacy. People will always remember what you did. That’s why I run the way I run.’ – Le’Veon Bell

‘And I’m so grateful to have that family name and continue my family’s legacy, but I’m also very excited to create my own.’ – Tessa Blanchard

‘Carrying on the Blanchard name is a huge honor for me because my grandfather, my father and my step-father – they’ve all put a lot into their legacy and for me to carry that on, it’s a lot of weight on my shoulders.’ – Tessa Blanchard

‘I have a huge family name to live up to and a huge legacy to live up to. I feel the pressure of that every day of my life, but I feel like it’s a blessing and a curse.’ – Tessa Blanchard

‘Sure, Obama is personally popular, but the same cannot be said for his policies or his legacy.’ – Katie Pavlich

‘A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament’s legacy of inequality in the past.’ – Andrea Leadsom

‘Studying my grandfather’s life and legacy has shown me what it takes to be a good public servant. Curiosity. Compassion for others. Humility. Determination to stand tall for your beliefs in the face of opposition. No one believed these things more than my grandfather.’ – Jack Schlossberg

‘I’m inspired by my family’s legacy of public service. It’s something that I’m very proud of.’ – Jack Schlossberg

‘From an England point of view they have put money into white-ball cricket because our performances in World Cups has not been good enough, I understand the reasons for that. But we have to be careful not to go too one-day, we have to find a balance because there is such a legacy of Test cricket in this country and we can’t lose that.’ – James Anderson

‘To take over a government through military force would create instability, and it would not last for long. I do not want to leave a legacy of having taken over the government through military means. It has never occurred to me to have a coup d’etat.’ – Suharto

‘I am proud of the advances we have made in New York where we have continued a legacy of substantive HIV/AIDS policy, but we must continue the fight to end the epidemic and ensure an AIDS-free generation.’ – Letitia James

‘I think ‘Star Trek’ has a really beautiful legacy of humor, along with the more philosophical and action parts of ‘Star Trek.’ And so I felt pretty honored to get to keep that legacy going.’ – Mary Wiseman

‘In truth, the legacy that President Obama’s agenda will leave on history is the poisoning of the tree of liberty.’ – Wayne LaPierre

‘I wish there were more, if there if there were more George H.W. Bushes in the world, we’d be, we’d have a lot more harmony, a lot more freedom, a lot more peace on earth, and I’m just so proud of his legacy he left earlier.’ – Neil Bush

‘We come from a rich history of amazing sports and athletes here in Canada and there’s been a long legacy before us that helped pave the way. And that’s why I grew up believing I could go to the Olympics and stand on the podium one day.’ – Tessa Virtue

‘For me, I didn’t really have family that was in entertainment. I didn’t really grow up with an uncle that’s a TV writer or something, so I didn’t even know that it was possible at all. I slowly learned more about it and ended up here. I want people to not be discouraged by the fact that they don’t have a legacy in Hollywood that’s bringing them in.’ – Jaboukie Young-White

‘We’ve had a difficult legacy of 40 years, and cleaning up is not going to be a one day job. But we are engaged in a systematic effort, we have not allowed formation of new militia groups, and we are reforming the local police systematically so that there won’t be abuse.’ – Ashraf Ghani

‘It is a British legacy that we have such a strict hierarchy that we can’t even write a letter to our PM.’ – Arvind Kejriwal

‘The Umbrella Movement was a legacy, not a victory, because there weren’t any concrete policies or systematic reforms after it.’ – Joshua Wong

‘I struggled with a lot of the legacy for a long time, probably actually into my 30s before I really made peace with it.’ – Yolanda King

‘I remember so vividly the first time I saw one of Marshall Wyatt’s superb compilations called ‘Folks He Sure Do Pull Some Bow’ and seeing a picture of a black fiddler and freaking out. I had stumbled upon the hidden legacy of the black string band and I wanted to know more.’ – Rhiannon Giddens

‘Nobody can know what their legacy is going to be, you know?’ – Rhiannon Giddens

‘The name Noel Skelton is largely forgotten today, but his legacy in the Conservative Party in the 20th century was enormous.’ – Kwasi Kwarteng

‘Unesco can rightly be claimed as one of Britain’s greatest contributions to that global architecture of peace, and for Penny Mordaunt to be willing to destroy that legacy by withdrawing Britain’s membership is nothing but historical and cultural vandalism.’ – Emily Thornberry

‘The honest thing is that my parents wanted to help people. That is part of my responsibility, to carry on that legacy.’ – John Carter Cash

‘Along with the music, there is a large part of my father’s legacy that has to do with what he had to say. What he believed in, what he stood for, the understanding of his own darkness, the faith that he had that drove him, and the great love that he had for people.’ – John Carter Cash

‘Most legacy companies get crushed – they get Blockbustered – because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is.’ – Marc Randolph

‘When presidents decide to litigate an issue to protect their policy decisions, they are more likely to act judiciously, and with an eye toward compromise, because they can see the larger implications for the legacy of their office.’ – Asha Rangappa

‘While President Obama assumes that at their core the Republican leadership team is just trying to do what’s best for America, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner assume that the president is cynically trying to secure his own reelection, power, and legacy.’ – Krystal Ball

‘More than stock prices or product launches, Silicon Valley’s legacy will be defined by whether tech leaders step up to contribute to the larger American experiment.’ – Ro Khanna

‘I want Bappa to be amongst the best music composers. My father was a great singer and I also did quite well and now my son would take forward the legacy, as music is in our blood.’ – Bappi Lahiri

‘I want to leave a great legacy behind, not just be a quarterback drafted in the first round who doesn’t produce.’ – Lamar Jackson

‘The whole issue of Iraq has left us with a legacy, which is not good. The ripple effect from that initial invasion is continually being felt in worldwide institutions, in the U.S. and the U.K.’ – Katharine Gun

‘If you’re playing baseball, why are you playing baseball? Is it to have success on the field and be a Hall-of-Famer or whatever it is? Sure, that’s everyone’s goal. But then what? For me, it’s about the legacy you leave off the field.’ – Clayton Kershaw

‘The people we helped in the field, they know what the legacy is. The 40% or so of Americans that really can’t stand the name of Blackwater, that’s fine, I’ll never really win them over anyway. And I really don’t care.’ – Erik Prince

‘100 Muay Thai, boxing, and kickboxing fights. Six times world Muay Thai champion, five times European Muay Thai champion, very dominant UFC champion for three years. I know my legacy. They can say whatever they want to, but I’m huge.’ – Joanna Jedrzejczyk

‘You can build your legacy and your legacy can be big, but even after you slip or fall, you learn, and your legacy is getting even bigger.’ – Joanna Jedrzejczyk

‘We’ve never had somebody to secure the legacy for the 155-pound division.’ – Tony Ferguson

‘If you look at Disney’s slate compared to the other Hollywood studios, it stands out because of big titles and strong franchise films which also extend beyond cinemas, to merchandising or theme parks given the legacy of the four brands – Disney, Pixar, Marvel and now Lucasfilm.’ – Ronnie Screwvala

‘I hope we win a lot of games, that’s part of the job at Ohio State. But you want to have a bigger impact than that when you’re done. You want to leave a legacy behind, you want to make change.’ – Ryan Day

‘I still feel like there are so many things that I have to do to really become an icon. I’ve done a lot and laid down a lot of groundwork, but there’s so much more work to be done. There’s a lot more that I want to do, LGBTQ centers that I want to open. After I leave my legacy, then I will be that icon.’ – Big Freedia

‘The best way to honor the legacy of a person who’s passed is to find a way to support the living.’ – Eric Greitens

‘No one will ever fill Scott’s shoes and I’m not trying to – he’s a legend. But these songs deserve to be performed and people want to hear them. I’m just honored that the guys chose me to help them continue to build this band’s legacy.’ – Jeff Gutt

‘I don’t know if it’s a legacy, but I love it. In my mind and other people’s minds, they know I was the first to stylize the national anthem.’ – Jose Feliciano

‘A lot of nepotism that exists, actually, exists outside this industry because in this industry, behind the camera a director’s son becomes a director and a producer’s son becomes a producer and that is still understandable that they are carrying their legacy but for actors, it is very very different.’ – Rajesh Khattar

‘I don’t care about that All-Star bonus, to be honest. It’s just about my legacy.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘I need those meaningful fights, the fights that everyone wants to see. That would help my legacy a long way.’ – Terence Crawford

‘I don’t ever think about, ‘Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.’ No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I’m the best fighter in the world.’ – Terence Crawford

‘Because I am the daughter of Sachin and Supriya Pilgaonkar, people have expectations fixed on me as I gear up to carry the family legacy.’ – Shriya Pilgaonkar

‘My father had a great legacy and implemented important policies for Canada.’ – Caroline Mulroney

‘To truly rid the oceans of plastic, what we need to do is two things: One, we need to clean up the legacy pollution, the stuff that has been accumulating for decades and doesn’t go away by itself. But, two, we need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place.’ – Boyan Slat

‘The legacy, the waste, is mostly in international waters that are sort of in no man’s land and thus considered to be no one nation’s problem.’ – Boyan Slat

‘My dad died with a full head of hair, so I have that legacy.’ – Leo Sayer

‘My legacy is always going to be fine.’ – LaVar Ball

‘I don’t feel any pressure to live up to the legacy of my grandfather; if I did, I’d be mad. I’m as much of a fan of his work as anyone.’ – Sophie Dahl

‘Believe me, I think if I stopped writing when I left The Voice I would have quite a legacy. But the fact of the matter was, it never occurred to me to stop.’ – Robert Christgau

‘I would say my favorite tattoo is my first tattoo of my father, you know, just the remembrance of him, his legacy and impact that he’s had on my life. He passed away when I was a kid, you know, I got the halo with the angel wings on my back.’ – DeAndre Hopkins

‘Oh, you know, your legacy’s all you’re gonna be remembered by.’ – DeAndre Hopkins

‘Over the years, Chevron has behaved in a way that reinforces the worst stereotypes about large corporations: it has cynically avoided responsibility for its past and watched in indifference as more people become sick and die because of its failure to deal with its legacy environmental issues.’ – Kerry Kennedy

‘I’m trying to build something that lasts forever. If it’s tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I’m gone, it will have no momentum or can’t keep selling.’ – Martellus Bennett

‘With ‘CCSKNH,’ we are planning to carry forward the rich legacy of the state. Though there haven’t been many Haryanvi films, the state has tremendous potential.’ – Satish Kaushik

‘Kobe never got complacent. He always wanted more. And I think, ultimately, that’s going to be his legacy.’ – J. J. Redick

‘I been asked about my legacy and I really don’t care much about the legacy.’ – Manu Ginobili

‘The legacy thing is very overrated.’ – Manu Ginobili

‘If you live your life thinking about your legacy or what you’re going to leave, you don’t worry than you add another concern. Just live your life every single day, do the best you can and that’s more of my motto than leaving a legacy.’ – Manu Ginobili

‘Army astronauts have a very proud legacy in the astronaut program.’ – Anne McClain

‘My lasting legacy now is just going to be in highlight reels.’ – B. J. Penn

‘I’ve put it all on the line every time, win, lose, or draw, and that’s what I want to be left behind in my legacy.’ – Dustin Poirier

‘I just didn’t want my legacy to be that of a few others that I don’t even have to name, where I was controlled by a substance, or a liquid for that matter. My life is too precious to me.’ – Ivan Moody

‘It would be a great thing for my legacy to get in the ring with an all-time great.’ – Mikey Garcia

‘I want to add to my legacy because, in the end, that’s going to be the most valuable for my career.’ – Mikey Garcia

‘As a 73 year old global brand, IAMS comes with a very strong legacy of tailored nutrition for pets and I am glad to be a part of the launch of a brand that shares my priorities and the needs of my pets.’ – Amala Akkineni

‘I still miss my mom every day, but when I see the smiles on the faces of the people that I help I know I am honoring her legacy.’ – Matt Barnes

‘Each one of us is a custodian of India’s well-being and of the legacy that we will pass on to coming generations.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘India’s history and destiny, India’s legacy and future, are a function of coexistence and conciliation, of reform and reconciliation.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘Guru Nanak Dev lives in our hearts. He is our common legacy. He is the guiding light for the entire humanity.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘I wouldn’t say Pulisic is there to fill Hazard’s boots. It’s not fair to put that load on him. He’s there to bring another way of playing for Chelsea and he will create his own footprints basically and build his own legacy there at the Bridge. He is definitely a player the fans will like. In America he is rated very, very highly.’ – Shaun Wright-Phillips

‘My mother was a woman of the ’50s who had a family in the ’70s while finding her political and feminist voice. She could make marvellous three-course meals after teaching all day but hated it. Because of that legacy, it took me a long time to realise the delights of the family table.’ – Dervla Kirwan

‘I want to make a serious legacy.’ – Kell Brook

‘Everyone in the league has a journey or a legacy, whether you’re in the league for five years or you’re in the league for one year.’ – D’Angelo Russell

‘It’s clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father’s legacy of social change through nonviolence.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘I have this connection, but I want my story, my legacy, not the same as Eddie Guerrero, not the same as Rey Mysterio, different.’ – Andrade

‘I’m working for my legacy.’ – Andrade

‘The old-school Undertaker is my legacy. It’s probably what I’m going to be remembered for.’ – The Undertaker

‘Many star kids constantly get compared to their fathers and are unable to match their parent’s mettle. But I am proud to say that my son has taken the legacy forward.’ – Puneet Issar

‘There is no such thing as replacing Chris Berman, but the chance to build on his incredible legacy while simultaneously taking new risks to serve NFL fans is the opportunity of a lifetime.’ – Samantha Ponder

‘After having seen my dad do so much in comedy, I know I have a legacy to live up to.’ – Ananya Panday

‘I think the Lakers are a legacy franchise. Players know when they come here, this is the ultimate platform.’ – Jeanie Buss

‘Madam Walker’s legacy lives in her philanthropy as well as in an amazing line of hair care products.’ – A’Lelia Bundles

‘There are two national historic landmarks: the Madam Walker Legacy Center in Indianapolis and the Madam C.J. Walker House in Irvington, New York.’ – A’Lelia Bundles

‘John’s legacy? His bravery. When he had the power, he used it. He really wanted peace on Earth, and John’s lyrics, well, that’s the brave poetry of the ’60s. If he had stayed with us, he could have done so much more.’ – Astrid Kirchherr

‘Chris didn’t only leave a legacy of work. He left a legacy of love.’ – Dana Reeve

‘It’s always the great thing about being involved in such a legacy series such as ‘Star Trek’ is you’ll always want to know more about the characters that you love.’ – Tamlyn Tomita

‘Most Japanese-Americans have that legacy. The camp experience is something of a calling card between them. They say, ‘So, where were you interned?” – Tamlyn Tomita

‘The difference between doing a live show and a sitcom is that a sitcom can live on. If you do it well, it can leave a legacy, whereas most of our live work never gets repeated because it’s final, it’s done, you start again.’ – Ant McPartlin

‘The legacy that The Undertaker has had, I can’t even put into words. He changed the landscape.’ – Aleister Black

‘I think that there are always these opponents that you circle back to that you have made some sort of legacy with and I feel Buddy Murphy is that for me.’ – Aleister Black

‘It was very important to me to create something that would create a legacy. I wanted to do something that had the ability to earn billions of dollars – like really had the ability to do that.’ – Ray J

‘Music will always be my first love, but it was time to diversify into something that had the ability to really create a financial legacy.’ – Ray J

‘India has a long tradition of giving that cuts across all sections of society. It is a living legacy that we can all be proud of.’ – Rohini Nilekani

‘I think there is so many elements of the culture of basketball that Jordan leads in and has been a leader over the years – from Michael’s on court legacy to his work ethic, competitiveness, passion, and leadership.’ – Maya Moore

‘In times of stress, it is easy to look to one’s weaknesses and fear the worst, but it is worth remembering that London’s cultural strengths are not some ephemeral dot-com bubble; they are a real, tangible legacy of decades of investment in talent.’ – Munira Mirza

‘Everyone throughout the soccer world knows the Cosmos name and the legacy of the players that played for this team previously. They helped establish soccer in America and I’m honored to follow in their footsteps.’ – Raul

‘I am the third generation of women in my family to be struck with a gynecologic cancer. Because of this legacy, we have been genetically tested.’ – Camille Grammer

‘I definitely feel like I’m carrying on the legacy of the Scott family. What Wendell had to go through was extremely difficult, but he kept racing, kept fighting. Part of him will be with me when I’m out on the track.’ – Bubba Wallace

‘I’m excited to contribute towards U.S.A. Basketball’s winning legacy and continuing its tremendous reputation around the world.’ – DeMarcus Cousins

‘Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalism at legacy publications.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘What legacy can I leave behind to everybody that they will remember me?’ – Liza Soberano

‘The United States and the D.P.R.K. will not overcome a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula through the course of a single Saturday.’ – Morgan Ortagus

‘That’s why we’re here: to leave a legacy that’ll be remembered long after we’re done. And what a great start to my legacy, man, being the first UFC flyweight champion.’ – Joseph Benavidez

‘People would ask me about my legacy, and I would tell them my legacy is what I did. You can’t change it. It’s just what you do or what you did.’ – Joseph Benavidez

‘That was always the top martial artist – the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Once I started beating them, I knew I had what it takes to form a new martial art. That’s when I came up with Joe Jitsu, my namesake, so my legacy lives forever through the martial arts.’ – Joseph Benavidez

‘My favourite holdings are Vanguard’s Wellington Fund, a balanced mutual fund which is a legacy investment from my first career at Wellington Management Co., and the Vanguard 500 Index Fund.’ – John C. Bogle

‘I didn’t grow up with my dad, or around the whole legacy. I was post-Motown, so I’d always hear stories and wonder what was it like.’ – Redfoo

‘Kobe’s legacy is definitely one of the best players to play this game ever.’ – Vlade Divac

‘Hopefully when I make it to 80, I can go to a hockey game and watch the Predators and Capitals play with my grandkids. That’s probably my legacy on the hockey side.’ – Barry Trotz

‘I feel like if you do one album, you don’t give people the chance to judge you twice. If they judge you once and that legacy goes on, you’ll go viral.’ – Fivio Foreign

‘I don’t feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.’ – Grayson Allen

‘Racism is earthbound – it’s something we only do to each other here on earth. Legacy, on the other hand, is otherworldly. It pushes us forward to our future.’ – Jonathan Majors

‘When you allow yourself to really think about the future and the legacy you’re leaving, you become gentler.’ – Jonathan Majors

‘I have to motivate myself every season now to win things I’ve already won just to build my own legacy and try to end my career as high up as I possibly can.’ – Neil Robertson

‘We all know he was talented but he was also a very smart, kind, funny individual and his personality and presence will be deeply missed. There will never be another person like him but his legacy will live forever. R.I.P. Chad Butler.’ – Chamillionaire

‘Scarface, I don’t think, has done anything in his whole career to tarnish his legacy.’ – Chamillionaire

‘When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.’ – Jaime Harrison

‘Music has been of central importance to Disney movies for as long as I can remember. To contribute to that legacy, is a great honor.’ – James Newton Howard

‘One of my biggest goals in writing the music for ‘Fantastic Beasts’ was to create memorable melodies. J.K. Rowling’s world has always had a great musical legacy and I was hoping to continue that tradition.’ – James Newton Howard

‘He was living proof that this country can improve. That, as a nation, we can peacefully confront historic wrongs and right them. John Lewis may be gone but his message and his legacy remains.’ – Mikie Sherrill

‘John Lewis’ vital role in the civil rights movement will never be forgotten, and his legacy will forever be acknowledged by our state and our country.’ – Angela Stanton-King

‘I want my legacy to be, wow she was a woman that really cared about others and dedicated her life to make sure that this world was a better world.’ – Dominique Crenn

‘A legacy, or things like that, I’ve never really been a big thinker in that way. You know, it’s kind of just been trying to go each day.’ – Jarome Iginla

‘Like many professional footballers, I have the legacy of injuries picked up over my career but the effect on my day-to-day training and on matchday is non-existent.’ – Charlie Austin

‘I wouldn’t change anything about my career. I don’t need my legacy to be anything.’ – Ian Poulter

‘For me, understanding your heritage and wanting to leave a legacy was always important to me.’ – C. J. McCollum

‘Hosting and surfacing legacy media content isn’t all about YouTube trying to abandon its core, it’s about inviting a broader variety of viewers to the platform.’ – Hank Green

‘I took my dad’s name to carry on his legacy because acting feels like something I’m meant to do. I want to try everything.’ – Jasmine Cephas Jones

‘My days at the Studio sustain all the work that I do today. They gave me a sense of legacy, a sense of belonging, and a community that made me believe in my talent and vocation.’ – Teresa Ruiz

‘George’s contribution to the great archive of contemporary music rests alongside the immortals. His is a legacy of unquestionable brilliance and one which will continue to shine and resonate for generations to come.’ – Andrew Ridgeley

‘Success can be a legacy.’ – Alan Pardew

‘I wanted to establish my musical legacy and honor the classic sound of flamenco in the most traditional sense.’ – Rosalia

‘At the end of the day, we fight for the legacy, but you don’t want to be just a fighter with legacy with no money.’ – Danny Garcia

‘A lot of my pieces have involved teamwork, but hopefully they’ve inspired people to make things – that inspiration would be a great legacy.’ – David Linley

‘There is an amazing feminist writer called Lindy West; she wrote a very nice piece for The New York Times. She wrote about Woody Allen, saying if we can’t go after your work or your career, we will go after your legacy. You will never be remembered the same way. I think a lot of women will have to take solace in that.’ – Richa Chadha

‘Diego Tardelli has a very good history with the national team, and left a legacy of his time in Dunga’s squad.’ – Tite

‘Legacy is an issue, in my opinion. People in the ISL seemed very much more worried about winning, than in creating a legacy.’ – Zico

‘Profit and fame will not develop Indian football. Professionals, technique development, legacy specialists, and experts in football business, will develop India as football country.’ – Zico

‘I am proud of my father’s legacy, he is a truly incredible artist and has a lot of goodwill in the film and fashion industry.’ – Antara Mali

‘I’m in there for more than just a fight. I’m in there fighting for my legacy.’ – Jermell Charlo

‘I’m trying to leave a legacy, man. I’m trying to get a gold jacket someday. That’s my mindset.’ – LeSean McCoy

‘At some point you’ve got to get to yourself and say, ‘Wait a minute, I’ve been handed this legacy but I have to become accountable so I don’t hand a lot of it on to my children.” – Mariette Hartley

‘My life was a legacy of death and humor.’ – Mariette Hartley

‘I am writing my own legacy, and I am carrying NXT along for the ride.’ – Tommaso Ciampa

‘I would never write anything off the table. But my goal is to build my legacy in NXT and, with my legacy, build what NXT is.’ – Tommaso Ciampa

‘I don’t know if it breaks my heart to say it or not, but I feel like my legacy might be more behind the scenes than it ever was in the ring.’ – Tyson Kidd

‘Most people know who I am and what kind of legacy I have.’ – Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.

‘I’m trying to create a career for myself, but not just any career, I’m trying to create a legacy.’ – Keith Thurman

‘My family has a history in philanthropy, and I want to continue that legacy.’ – Spencer Dinwiddie

‘I think 1GOAL is so important. I’m proud that we could make education for all the legacy of Africa’s first World Cup.’ – Eusebio

‘As long as I keep doing what I’m doing, I’ll get the fights I need and get the legacy that I always dreamed of.’ – Jermall Charlo

‘People always ask me why I didn’t join a crew or something like that. I don’t know if that would have changed my legacy or if I would still be here today.’ – Fabolous

‘My uncles, grandfather and great grandfather have all been active in politics at some point or the other. So probably I am only taking that family legacy forward.’ – Mimi Chakraborty

‘I’m creatively driven to create a body of work. I was made to put on this Earth to wrestle and perform. Create a legacy, create this Villain persona to put down in the history books for people to watch for many years to come.’ – Marty Scurll

‘I was going to go back to doing the indies more often and possibly working more of a full-time schedule in Japan. If I didn’t get the chance to go to WWE, that would have been a bummer to me, but I was just going to continue to do the best I could and continue my legacy.’ – Roderick Strong

‘I care about making the game, the industry and the people I’m around better because I’m around. Ultimately that’s what creates a legacy… But you have to be OK with making people mad because people don’t like change.’ – Trevor Bauer

‘To be in the UFC would mean to go back to where I already won the belt, to go back to where I was a champion at 24 years old, and try to cement my legacy as an MMA fighter.’ – Josh Barnett

‘When people look back on me and my career, I’d like them to say I was one of the people who helped start something big in Brooklyn. Started a legacy where players want to come and play.’ – Brook Lopez

‘Until I have that belt, defended that belt and left a legacy with my name and what I’ve done in that cage, then I’ll have time to relax and take in what I’ve done.’ – Travis Browne

‘People often speak about legacy. And when they mention our legacy, I sure hope they don’t only mention football.’ – Jason McCourty

‘Katherine Johnson is a shining example of what you can truly do with hard work and persistence. Under what had to be the most difficult of circumstances she persevered and stuck to her values. She is a real West Virginia and American hero. To honor her legacy every August 26th, on her birthday, is the least we can do.’ – Jim Justice

‘My grandmother left an incredible legacy and mark on my life and my family.’ – Julius Randle

‘Vice President Mondale devoted himself to championing the civil rights of all Americans and worked to ensure that everyone has opportunity to achieve success in their lives regardless of their socioeconomic background or upbringing. We are deeply grateful for his service to the United States and the legacy he leaves.’ – Ned Lamont

‘Connecticut is proud of the human rights legacy of Thomas Dodd, and the work of the University of Connecticut to build on that legacy through the Dodd Human Rights Impact initiative. We are also proud of our Commission on Human and Civil Rights as a tireless defender of the equal rights for all of our community members.’ – Ned Lamont

‘Instead of a legacy as a fighter, I want to leave a mark in the sport about the good news of Jesus Christ.’ – Rory MacDonald

‘I’m not a celebrity. I’m much more of a legacy. All things considered, I’d rather be a legacy.’ – Rudy Ruettiger

‘I want to protect my legacy. I’ve trained great horses.’ – Bob Baffert

‘Audrey, it seems to me, never strove or hoped to leave a lasting legacy with her films – she was far too modest for that. But what I think she would have wanted, had she been given more time, would have been to continue her work for children because she knew that is a task with so much to be accomplished.’ – Robert Wolders

‘I just hope, in terms of legacy, that more kids want to choose a life in sport that they are more active and getting stuck in really.’ – Denise Lewis

‘I feel incredibly honored to have been the very first Miss California USA titleholder to have been crowned with the Legacy Crown. I know all the titleholders feel strongly connected with one another because of it.’ – Nicole Johnson

‘My detective just told me, ‘Seriously, you are in danger and you have to change all your information.’ But I said no because my name, Park Yeon-mi, is my legacy from my father, that’s the only one he just left me. I’m very proud of my name so that’s why if I die I’m ok.’ – Park Yeon-mi

‘I want the legacy of Chi Chi Devayne to be a damn good performer that came from nowhere and took the world by storm.’ – Chi Chi DeVayne

‘ROWW will only grow stronger to continue Paul’s legacy for years and years to come. We are always conscious of Paul as we continue to grow – I want to make certain that ROWW continues on a path that Paul would be proud of.’ – Cody Walker

‘Not only did she represent inner and outer beauty and elegance, but all the work she did at the end of her life touched so many people. She created this extraordinary legacy.’ – Sean Hepburn Ferrer

‘The real legacy of Atal Bihari Vajpayee lies in the politics of opposition. The politics of opposition is the politics of dissent. From 1957 to 1996, he dedicated his life to exactly that.’ – Ravish Kumar

‘Coal ash, the hazardous byproduct of burning coal to produce power, is a particularly insidious legacy of the nation’s dependence on coal.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘I want to be here in L.A.’ – Jordan Clarkson

‘I want to be somewhere that I can call home and leave a legacy.’ – Jordan Clarkson

‘McConnell is praised throughout the Republican Party for his focus on confirming originalist judges to federal courts. It’s easily his greatest legacy, and one I wrote about at length in ‘Justice On Trial,’ my book with Carrie Severino.’ – Mollie Hemingway

‘At the end of the day, it is not about money. It is not about cars. It is about legacy and it is about rings.’ – Howie Long

‘When you’re done playing you want to leave a legacy.’ – Mike Conley Jr.

‘SportsCenter’ is the legacy brand at ESPN, I had a great year doing the show. But it was not a fit for me because ultimately I had a lot of things that I really wanted to say and wanted to express, and the ‘SportsCenter’ vehicle is not necessarily set up for that.’ – Jemele Hill

‘There were some hardcore fans who thought I was ruining the band they loved. And now there’s this document, ‘The Doors Unhinged,’ which, hopefully, they’ll take away that I was trying to preserve the band they love and its legacy.’ – John Densmore

‘I’ve thought about it a lot: How do I want to leave my legacy? And what do I want to leave behind when I’m done with the sport and with USA Volleyball.’ – Jordan Larson

‘I see the rivalry in Alberta now between Calgary and Edmonton on the men’s side and I’d love to see it on the women’s side as well. I’d love to bring a team home. I think that would be a great legacy to leave.’ – Stephanie Labbe

‘We saw David Carradine, who is not of Asian descent, playing an Asian man on the show ‘Kung Fu’ that originally should have, and was developed for, Bruce Lee. To have that be the legacy that quote-unquote inspired ‘Shang-Chi’ in the beginning obviously doesn’t put us off to a great start.’ – Simu Liu

‘I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to restore dignity and humanity to our immigration policies and to respectfully uphold America’s legacy as a nation of immigrants.’ – Alex Padilla

‘You create history within yourself. You create history within your own family. You create your own legacy. Because I create history without even trying to and that’s when the best parts of history are created.’ – Bianca Belair

‘I just feel like now, I have a family, I have kids. I do everything for them. I just think about what’s the legacy I want to leave when I’m gone, what do I want people to say about me?’ – DeSean Jackson

‘I don’t need any more recognition. I don’t need any more money. I don’t need any legacy.’ – Mack Brown

‘It’s an honor to support the Black College Football Hall of Fame and HBCU Legacy Bowl in their efforts to provide more opportunities for students attending historically black colleges and universities.’ – Bobby Wagner

‘You watch guys like Ray Lewis, you watch guys like Brian Urlacher, everything they accomplished was dope. But it was cool to see them do it for one team, one city and really cement their legacy where they were at.’ – Bobby Wagner

‘Colin Powell devoted himself to the betterment of this country and of every American in all that he did. His legacy and character is one we must remember, and one that we should each seek to emulate in all that we do.’ – Chris Sununu

‘To continue my efforts as a leader for my people and to follow my family’s legacy of providing legitimate opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through my sport of basketball is the true outcome of my personal success and accomplishments.’ – Patty Mills

‘In the drive to prove our status as a world-class city, let’s stay true to our democratic legacy and what Boston has already given to the world: informed independence and true debate.’ – Michelle Wu

‘When we came up, Clive Davis and other record execs would do anything to keep Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, even Johnny Mathis intact, because they wanted to keep alive a musical legacy. As a result, those artists were able to spend 30 to 40 years in the business and still make a living, still have a fan base.’ – Philip Bailey

‘I feel like I have a legacy that I’ve built. I feel like I’ve made my little notch in history.’ – Violet Chachki

‘Elijah E. Cummings leaves behind an invaluable legacy as a congressman for Baltimore for more than two decades and as a champion for social justice. His passing is a call to cherish the many gifts he imparted on all those fortunate to know him, but it’s also a reminder of a painful reality facing people of color: shorter life expectancy.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘Continuing the legacy of Elijah E. Cummings requires that we fulfill our destiny to fight for the world as it should be.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘Thomas J. Huddleston never cast a ballot in his lifetime but he found a way to lift Black Mississippians up. And that is a legacy I will carry with me always.’ – Mike Espy

‘The heroes behind Operation Warp Speed will never receive the credit they deserve under a vindictive Biden administration seeking to destroy Trump’s legacy.’ – Miranda Devine

‘We do random acts of kindness all the time, but we wanted to leave a legacy for our whole family and just help people for a long long time, just spread positivity and get kids educated that deserve an education.’ – Mike Evans

‘I’m not big on what my career will be or what my legacy will be.’ – Beneil Dariush

‘Curtis Axel isn’t Joe Hennig. That’s who he should’ve been from day one, there are guys that have a legacy in this business. All that they would’ve had to do to help him from day one was let him be Joe Hennig.’ – Arn Anderson

‘When we started it was only for the fun. We never had any thoughts of legacy or anything like that. It was a thrill to have one album released. Music was only a fun thing to do for us, I was studying graphic design and Russell film – but it gradually became something more than the other stuff.’ – Ron Mael

‘In my case, I was representing my family name, honor, legacy… I did not see it as a sport requiring winning or losing a game. For me, it was honor, tradition.’ – Rickson Gracie

‘Some clubs make the mistake that their only legacy is that they are 100 years old.’ – Ralf Rangnick

‘I don’t really think about legacy. I just think of how fortunate I am to have had the opportunities in my life. You know, it’s amazing.’ – Marty Walsh

‘We’re trying to build a legacy brand that will stand the test of time.’ – Kendra Scott

‘By taking care of our Gold Star Families, we honor the legacy of our service men and women, who gave their lives to protect our freedom.’ – Glenn Youngkin

‘The pace that Bob Marley set in reggae music, on such a positive and widespread level, is something that I want to emulate and carry on. I want to honour his legacy in that sense.’ – Koffee

‘It’s interesting, I don’t really think too much about being a role model or leaving a legacy or whatever. It’s just not how I think.’ – Dylan Alcott

‘There’s been a lot of talk and speculation on the Saudi league and it’s just not something that I believe is best for me and my future in golf and I think the best legacy I can accomplish is on the PGA Tour.’ – Jon Rahm

‘I’ve always been interested in history and legacy.’ – Jon Rahm

‘For me, the legacy you leave is very important.’ – Jon Rahm

‘I want to build a legacy.’ – Brandon Moreno

‘The most important thing for me to keep my training going and keep always in shape to build a real legacy in my life, not just for me, but for my family and the people around me.’ – Brandon Moreno

‘Donald Trump’s legacy is not simply speckled with incidents of racism; it itself is racist.’ – Karine Jean-Pierre

‘I want to inspire the youth that grew up similar to where I grew up from underprivileged backgrounds. That’s what I want my legacy to be.’ – Leon Edwards

‘The legacy I want to leave and the way I want to be remembered is as a great person, a good role model inside the octagon as well as outside the octagon.’ – Mauricio Rua

‘I don’t want to just be known for shuffling. I love shuffling, but it’s just the beginning of the legacy I want to leave as an artist.’ – Sky Blu

‘Wu-Tang is big – it’s bigger than us. We started off as just a bunch of guys from the neighborhood; now it’s around the world. It’s about our legacy and what we mean to people.’ – Inspectah Deck

‘I’m getting my just due as the man who inspired Hulk and Jesse Ventura and a lot of other folks. It’s very rewarding and a great legacy to have.’ – Superstar Billy Graham

‘It’s just incredible to be working alongside with the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, sharing the story of his life.’ – Melody Gardot

‘My family created a legacy in Chubbtown, Georgia, and I wanted to make them proud.’ – Nick Chubb

‘I don’t care about the rat race. I am satisfied with my legacy.’ – Sanjay Mishra

‘You know, being able to celebrate the legacy of Dr. King is an extraordinarily important event for our country.’ – Linda Thomas-Greenfield

‘I’m trying to leave a legacy.’ – Morten Andersen

‘The legacy that I’m going to leave in this game and what kind of attitude I have toward the game and being a positive guy to my teammates, that became more important to me than what my points and rebounds looked like.’ – David Lee

‘I want to be able to stay on one team and build my legacy over here in San Diego.’ – Fernando Tatis Jr.

‘There’s always a high standard, a baseline, when you play football at Alabama. But anyone who has played for the Crimson Tide will tell you that, as both a player and as a team each year, you want to leave your own stamp on the history of this program, your own unique legacy.’ – Mark Ingram II

‘Nick Saban’s legacy is already cemented. He’s won six national championships and seven if you include the one in LSU.’ – Mark Ingram II

‘Kobe’s legacy is going to be remembered as someone who obviously worked hard, the way he carried himself.’ – De’Aaron Fox

‘Legacy means so many things: accessible venues, transport, better awareness in schools, and a wonderful event which establishes healthy lives for another generation of disabled people. From that base, elite sport can emerge.’ – Tanni Grey-Thompson

‘System of a Down has a legacy of being left-leaning, which isn’t always the case.’ – John Dolmayan

‘Every year, Black History Month presents an opportunity to honor the legacy, contributions, and rich history of Black Americans and how they have shaped our country.’ – Laphonza Butler

‘It has been an honor to uphold Senator Feinstein’s brilliant legacy of fighting for Californians.’ – Laphonza Butler

‘Through grit and determination, the legendary Muhammad Ali made a lasting impact fighting for humanitarian rights and racial justice and I can think of no better way to close out Black History Month than by honoring his legacy.’ – Laphonza Butler

‘Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s leadership and legacy are immeasurable.’ – Laphonza Butler

‘I want my legacy, when you think about me, is as a football player that does his job pretty well.’ – Trent Williams

‘I’m not a guy who works only with the money. I’m not the guy who works on Wall Street. They think about money. I’m an athlete. Maybe it’s a stupid dream, to have all the belts. But it’s much more than just a belt. It’s a legacy. It’s something which makes you more happy, more confident. It helps to put your name in the boxing history.’ – Dmitry Bivol

‘Defending legacy admissions is a mistake, not just because it is inconsistent with opposition to affirmative action but also because legacy admissions are indefensible.’ – Norah Vincent