Quotes about Legacy

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

All this is to say that it's not your fault that you're fucked up. It's your fault if you stay fucked up, but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure. When

but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.

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.

I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.

My grandpa was a preacher.

My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that's my father.

I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.