Quotes About Legacy

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

As they say, real legends never die. Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.

I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.

Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can't now remember what any of them were.

I hope when my time as Liverpool manager is over, I'm remembered as someone who improved the team and left the club in a better position than I inherited it.

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years' time.

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.

I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music.

It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?

Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time.

Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.