Quotes About Legacy

My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me.

I will always play "Stand Back" anyway. And Prince will always he standing behind me every time I do.

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.

Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.

You only have but so much time to make an impact or people will forget you. My goal always is to make the biggest impact possible.

I have had a great time as president.

The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a right to advance.

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.

All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.

The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.

When I feel like I'm renowned enough, I'd love to do a heritage-type line, but that takes time.

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

I personally think President [Hosni] Mubarak, who's done a lot for Egypt, should acknowledge that his time has come and step down right away.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will last it's time, whatever time that is.