Legacy Impact Quotes

Words are the only things that last forever.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Every president is a product of those who preceded him.

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

Man is a history—making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

I think the legacy left behind by 'Battlestar' speaks for itself. I thought that these avid fans, most of whom were skeptical at first... to turn them into a fan of 'Caprica' as well is a daunting task, a big challenge.

Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.

That was one of the things I hadn't really put together. Since the first movie and this movie, the rest of us have been living that revolution, largely engineered by people who were Tron fans. That's pretty deep, man.

I'll always be known as Cheryl Miller's little brother.

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

There are loads of kids out there who haven't got a clue what 'Men Behaving Badly' was; it was such a long time ago. So I'm able to spread my wings a little bit more. I was able to do it on stage over the years. Most directors and producers don't know who I am these days, anyway!

We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, [J. Edgar] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a few of them and I'm also interested in power structures so it just has elements that fascinate me, and the more you learn about Hoover, the more polarizing you realize he is.

Superman is such an old character. He's an old character with this huge legacy behind him. And one of the awesome things about the fact that he's been around for these decades is that he's gone through these different phases.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

Kings are the slaves of history.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.