Quotes about Legacy

Everyone needs to find the one thing that brings out her passion. It's what we do and share with the world that matters. I believe it's important that we leave our communities in better shape than we found them.

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

Whatever I obtain through self-promotion I'll have to sustain through self-promotion. #bornforsignificance

We must learn to rule with the heart of a servant and serve with the heart of a king. It may take us a lifetime to learn this well, but it is a worthwhile journey. #bornforsignificance

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

I spent four years at Manchester City and won three trophies. It was a big wrench to leave.

The biggest thing about being a wrestler and being Goldberg gave me, was the ability to be a superhero for kids. I want the ability to be that guy again.

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.