Quotes About Legacy

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.

I've said I'll stand for a full second term, but I think after that it will be time for new leadership. Terms are like Shredded Wheat - two are wonderful but three might just be too many.

I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn't consume much time at all.

It's not beyond the possibility that there still could be a YES in 200 years' time... of course with different members, unless the medical profession comes up with something extraordinary.

We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.

I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.

Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain and lights again the Paths of Mankind.

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

I have my mother's mouth and my father's eyes; on my face they are still together.

Win now, and we'll walk together forever.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.