Quotes about Legacy

The wrong to the Negro is temporary, but to the morals of the white man the injury is permanent.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Each individual has a subconscious memory of the green earth and murmuring waters, and blindness and deafness cannot rob him of this gift from past generations. This inherited capacity is a sort of sixth sense- a soul sense which sees, hears, and feels, all in one.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.

I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

When I spent time with my father, it wasn't playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office and listened to him do business or sat in on meetings. I walked job sites. On Saturday, we'd see my grandfather in Queens for a couple hours, and then he'd say, 'Let's go collect rent!'

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I'm not going to die, honey. I'm going home like a shooting star.