Quotes About Legacy

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana

After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with [Humphrey Bogart].