Quotes About Legacy

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

I didn't become CM on 07-10-2001. I have always been CM, I am CM today and shall be CM forever. For me CM means not Chief Minister but Common Man.

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses the point. Whatever he was, he changed the world.

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

My father was an extraordinary man.

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis.

I don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

The old men know when an old man dies.

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.