Quotes About Legacy

It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

I'm not necessarily one to be remembered as a great, great speaker in wrestling, but I want to share my feelings about the people who have influenced me over the course of my career.

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.

I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them.

My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

My dad was a class person on and off the field. That's the person I want to be.

I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.

I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I'm done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.

When you get to my age, you'll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That's the ultimate test of how you've lived your life.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

You want me to describe Elvis, wow!

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.