Quotes About Legacy

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

We have a really rich and diverse heritage in my family - but I sometimes felt it was a bit of a chain round my neck in the Labour party if truth be told.

You know, I can't tell you that I'm very fond of anything I've done, including - and especially- 'The Addams Family.' That's an albatross around my neck that I've got to get rid of somehow.

This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

If Seattle could put my jersey on top of the Space Needle, they would.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

Most of the time, if you ask a kid who's their best friend, it's usually a classmate or their neighbor or something, but for me, it was my granddad. Everybody knew him - they called him Mr. Jones.

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.

We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.

It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

If we say the purpose of life is our children, that's neither a purpose nor a meaning. But I'm sure I will be as besotted as everybody else when I have them.

Back in the early '70s, there were two airlines that flew puddle jumpers from the Sarasota-Bradenton airport to Atlanta: National and Eastern, neither of which exists today.

I'm real sexy and I make sexy music so I'm going to be Prince meets Nelson Mandela.

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.