Quotes About Legacy

Behind me there were ghosts of people like a trailing fog as far as I could see -- grandfathers of grandfathers and grandmothers of grandmothers without number.

Oh sure, I have regrets, but that's the nice thing about age. Regrets fade. And eventually, you die.

Michael Jackson? That's all I gotta say.... He's become a punchline. He has! Michael Jackson is a punchline. To any joke you want. If you ever forget the punchline to a joke, all you gotta say is 'Michael Jackson.' "Two Jews walk into a bar ... Michael Jackson!" "Why did the chicken cross the road? Michael Jackson!" "So the farmer brings his daughter to the dinner table--Michael Jackson!" It works for f***ing anything!

When does a fellow step aside? I don't want to go off in a state of senility, as some have, even on this Court, in the past. I don't want to reach that point. And, of course, each of us is the last to know when he's reached that point. Just how much longer I'll go, I don't know.

The king never dies. Henry, Edward, or George may die; but the king survives them all.

I thought hard about taking stock on the Labour Party's 120th anniversary. It's not as if my advice is particularly welcome to today's party. But then it occurred to me that there are only two people born in the last 120 years who have actually won an election for Labour. And alas Harold Wilson is long gone.

The extraordinary thing is the Labour Party's desire to rewrite its only period of majority government in half a century in negative terms.

She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.

My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

In my Brain are studies & chambers fill'd with books & pictures of old, which I wrote & painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life.

dying should be like a birthday party to end all birthday parties.

businesses. They had new lives that they were fully engaged in and excited about. For some people, there was a fifth element:         5) The companies they'd created were going on without them and doing better than ever, and they could take pride in the way they'd handled one of the most difficult tasks faced by any CEO: succession.

I don't feel the need to get out, but I can't work forever, so I guess I'd better think about it," said Paul Saginaw of Zingerman's. "Currently our exit strategy is death.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

If you want to be a truly great leader, you'll develop other great leaders below you.

It is often said that my generation is the "greatest generation". That's not a title we claimed for ourselves. Every generation of young men and women who dares to face the realities of war - they are the greatest generation.

He's [G.H.W. Bush] never had to do a day's work in his life.

If you don't remember the past, you don't deserve to be remembered by the future.

children had children, and his oldest son, Jack, would succeed him as the tribe's Head Man. (Jack Red Cloud would in turn be succeeded by his son James; his son, Chief Oliver Red Cloud, died at ninety-three on July 4, 2013, 110 years to the day after his great-grandfather stepped down as chief.)

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Now I know what a statesman is he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.