We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching. – Paul Tsongas
The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I’m going, and Twitter will get it, and if there’s a controversy, I can give my opinion. It’s easier to communicate. – Madhuri Dixit
It is interesting that both Chicano and Puerto Rican art in the United States form an important part of the Civil Rights legacy and dialog. – Mari Carmen Ramirez
My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that’s your legacy. – Jan Brewer
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed. – Jim Costa
Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn’t until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon. – Jody Williams
Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That’s how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it’s like to leave a legacy. – Mattie Stepanek
As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving – through our children. – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through. – Joel Parkinson
I’ve always thought about my legacy – more so, though, my impact off the field and how I’m helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything. – Larry Fitzgerald
Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you’d do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce. – John Collison
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. – Li Peng
But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour’s legacy. – Liam Fox
I write in all sorts of places; it’s a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that’s my ideal place. – Jojo Moyes
I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn’t no such thing as rock n’ roll. When I started with ‘Tutti Frutti,’ that’s when rock really started rocking. – Little Richard
Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them. – Lysette Anthony
When you’re on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn’t do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by – legacy. Go about things the right way. – Kevin Love
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I’ve gotten from so many of the adult elders. – Marian Wright Edelman
I think that everything I’ve ever done at some point is part of someone else’s legacy. – Liev Schreiber
If you really believe that you’re making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets – not to have a fair fight. – Michael Bloomberg
‘Unexpected Legacy’ reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation’s first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study. – Katie Hafner
When you’re a model, you learn how to make the most of your assets – in my case, the smallish behind that is the legacy of my half-Japanese heritage. – Marie Helvin
Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a… legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great. – Jordana Brewster
