Quotes About Legacy

You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

How soon will time cover all things.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.

Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.