Quotes About Legacy

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do is going to mess it up. So, going into it, I felt sort of very free to look at it as a filmmaker does.

You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.

In fact, I still get messages for my mom's performance in 'Nadiya Ke Paar' as Rajjo.

I don't want to disappoint people. Especially with an icon like Britney. You don't want to be the one who messed it up.

Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and at home.

I don't think I'll see the next Messi in my lifetime.

My heroes were Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, and now it is Messi.

I respect his decisions, but football without Messi is not football. It is very hard to imagine football without him.

Messi's career is a cinema script.

For many years, Messi and Ronaldo will be the two best. After them, there is Xavi, Andres Iniesta, and others. I hope to be in the top ten.

Everything would have been different for Barcelona without Messi.

There are people you can say you have seen play, such as Pele or Maradona. But Messi is unique, out on his own, and is going to make history. I can say I saw Messi play.

The world's best when I was growing up was Pele and he would have been a great player now, too, but Messi surpasses him.

We are constantly told to enjoy Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo before they retire but what about Arjen Robben?

Messi and Ronaldo have dominated world football for a decade and, given the nature of football, at a certain point the baton will have to pass to someone else. I think Neymar has a great chance of filling that role.

I think Cristiano and Lionel Messi are two of the best players in the history of the game. Are they better than Pele or Diego Maradona? They are at the top, but I think it is difficult in football to say who is first or second or third.

Cristiano and Messi are different. Each one has their own history and credit.