Quotes about Legacy
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
— Alice Walker
I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.
— John Wesley
How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
— John Updike
The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.
— Elie Wiesel
Running your own race is doing the best you can every chance you get with what you have for a purpose that outlives you.
— Zig Ziglar
The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
— Zinedine Zidane
Whatever sins Christians engaged in the past, and they were extensive, the fact is that the most humane and decent countries in the world nearly all have Christian origins. That is not true of states that grew out of Islam.
— Dennis Prager
My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
— Denzel Washington
At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back.
— Denzel Washington
So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else.
— Denzel Washington
So you never know who you are going to touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20) - Denzel Washington, "So that We Might Follow
— Denzel Washington
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]
— Albert Einstein