Michael B. Jordan Quotes

I'm very much into legacies.

And I'm so grateful to have that family name and continue my family's legacy, but I'm also very excited to create my own.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

I want to see wealth cascading down the generations.

I want to take care of my family for generations. I want to have my head turned into a bust in the Hall of Fame.

As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.

I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!'

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.