Quotes About Legacy

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.

I think I've had an illustrious career.

I was born to an illustrious family in Hyderabad.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

I don't care about my personal acting career anymore. I'm done with it. After 10 years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: 'What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had?'

I never imagined that I would earn my way into anyone's rafters.

I never imagined that I would be at a club like Inter, with so much history and success and also as the captain. I can't see myself as a coach, but maybe as a director to give back to the club.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'

You tend to put your rock stars on pedestals - they seem like they've been there for time immemorial. But you realize that the rock stars have their own rock stars. They were fans and kids once, too.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space.

My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.

Our old stories happen to be your new stories. The stories that you're seeing as immigrant stories are your grandparents' stories, are your great-grandparents' stories. You just happen to be separated from them a little bit.

I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.

I'm the granddaughter of immigrants.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.