Quotes About Legacy

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

Drink,Drugs and shagging models. The rest I just wasted.' George Best on where his millions went.

And why, oh why, I wondered, had he named me after himself? What kind of a father would do that to his son? What could he have been thinking? Was it an excess of pride? Or was it, as my sister had once theorized, just the opposite, a deep-seated sense of inferiority that made our father want to double himself?

For better or worse, I was my father's son, and I intuited, however unclearly, that my life was inextricably bound up with his. I was who I was because of him. His blood was in my blood, his history was my history. Even my future, the person I might one day become, depended on him, because everything he'd ever seen or done or thought or felt flowed up through him and into me.

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.

Say Goodnight Gracie.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

My father gave me the best advice of my life. He said, "Whatever you do, don't wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence.

Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude...

Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

All books are merely delayed dust.

Bushism is Reaganism minus the passion for freedom.

This book is, among other things, a summons to pessimism. What is needed now, and what it is especially incumbent on conservatives to provide, is intelligent pessimism that is more than a mere mood. It should be a mentality grounded in a philosophic tradition that has a distinguished pedigree, and that is validated by abundant historical evidence for this proposition: Nothing lasts.

Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.