Quotes About Legacy

I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living. I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose.

The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.

Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.

Somebody asked me a question. It was a defining question: 'What type of legacy do you want to leave?' We ask that question a lot later in life, but we need to start asking it to young people.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

Most every day — if not every day — for the rest of your life, you will be reminded or think of this night. And I want to thank you in advance right now for the great memories it's going to be.

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson

The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.

But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.