Quotes About Legacy

It's so old, I think when it opened, Burger King was still a prince.

Kilroy was here

I really do hope my life meant something in the end- that it meant all of those things. I don't know what's next- what any of us can expect- but I do know I'm ready to see what's out there.

so imagine the day your great-great-grandmother was born. Got it? Now go back another hundred years or so. And then another hundred. That's about when they built Hills Village Middle School. Of course, I think it was a prison for Pilgrims back then, but not too much has changed. Now it's a prison for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders.

James Patterson

He wanted an heir, a tiny piece of immortality.

the Rockefeller

The house continues to call out from parts unseen, aches and hiccups and wheezes, a centuries-old creature drawing long, labored breaths. When

MEMENTO HOMO, QUIA PULVIS ES, ET IN PULVEREM REVERTERIS. "What is that? Latin?" Emily said. "It is," I said, staring at it. "My Catholic high school's preferred method of torture. Memento means 'remember,' I think. Pulvis is 'dust.'" Cold numbed my back like a spinal tap as I suddenly realized its meaning. "'Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren't alive, unfortunately.

My mother wrote a book. Unfortunately, it ended up being published posthumously. But I'm glad she did, because it taught me a lot about my family that, otherwise, I probably wouldn't know.

I established the Likud to serve a national idea and provide hope to the people of Israel, but it unfortunately can no longer do that.

Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.

Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.

My grandmother has a great aesthetic sense. Unfortunately I didn't inherit it.

The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren.

The smartest thing that an actor can do is embrace the thing that made them famous as opposed to run away from it or deny that it happened. That does a disservice to most actors. To me, it looks like you're ungrateful.

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.