Quotes about Legacy

Guilt and blame grew defuse when memory covered a millennia.

When our time ends on its rictus smile, we'll pass the lure of fortune.

Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance?

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly Congressman John Lewis and many others, Hosea Williams, fought for it as well.

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

If I could have played my whole career on one court it would have been the Centre Court at Wimbledon.

The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.

I would like to be the kind of coach who gets text messages and phone calls from players years after I coach them, because we had something that is bigger than just being on the floor.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.