Quotes About Legacy

When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.

Michael Jackson is everywhere. I can't not listen to what we did because it's everywhere. I listen to it all the time whether I want to or not.

Provenance is something very important in jewelry. You want to know who has worn a piece of jewelry and who it has belonged to - it's part of its history, part of its aura.

If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly "Scrubs" guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

We have to build the country that we want to see our future children and grandchildren live in.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

The French team has given me so much and I want to help it. I told myself I did not have much time left in soccer, and I want to profit from it to the maximum.

I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.

I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.