Quotes about Legacy

As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.

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.

When I lost my wife I had a whole different concept of her life. She lived 21 years and people who knew her know it wasn't about the great things she did on this earth. It wasn't that she had money or had popularity, it was that she loved Jesus Christ more than anything else in this world. That was how she related to the world.

I honor Billy Graham. He is a category by himself.

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.

In one great case a man [Winston Churchill] who had been considered too brilliant and too reckless ever to be trusted with major office was the leader of the country [1941]. One of Rowe's last memories was of hearing him hissed by ex-servicemen from the public gallery of a law court because he had told an abrupt unpalatable truth about an old campaign. Now he had taught the country to love his unpalatable truths.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

So don't be dismayed when the wicked grow rich and their homes become ever more splendid. For when they die, they take nothing with them. Their wealth will not follow them into the grave.

I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.