Quotes About Legacy

Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids.

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done.

I think that Superman is the pinnacle of the DC Universe. Our feeling always was that you need to get Superman right. That was also our goal. We didn't want to ignore that this universe exists.

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.

I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.

I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

I'm planning to stay in politics now, but, you know, George Burns worked until he was 100. I don't know. I don't want to be a Senator until I'm honored.

My father didn't want to go to Manhattan for me, and I came to Manhattan and I have done a great job in Manhattan. And then I wrote a best-seller and I wrote numerous best-sellers.

Always remember, the person we're really working for is the person who's restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He's the one we want to impress.

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.