Quotes about Legacy

This is my son, mine own Telemachus.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.

The four rings on my wedding finger are all very significant - my wedding ring, my mum's wedding ring and the engagement rings of my granny and mother-in-law.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.