Quotes About Legacy

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.

Pu La was like a father figure to people of my generation. I thank him for the characters his literary works offered us. They personify full-fledged human beings and have always given me company.

Conservatives don't love business for some abstract reason. We love it because of what it offers our children. Hope.

Directors didn't flood me with offers because I was Subhendu's son. I had to slog to find my foothold.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

I'd always also been interested in being in the army because my dad was in the army and my brother is an officer in the army.

The traditional path to making a name for yourself in our family is running for elective office, and I couldn't do that because, for one thing, all the really good offices were taken.

Even though I was there through it all, it is hard for me to comprehend that I was growing up with brothers who would eventually occupy the highest offices of our nation, including president of the United States.

We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese friends.

Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.

My father was bigger than life, an entity and everyone expected us, as his offspring, to be saintettes, these little carbon copies.

That's my first job on this earth is to make sure that my offspring are as smart as they can be and as well prepared for this world as they can be. So, I take that very seriously.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

Oftentimes, even myself as I've come through my entire career from high school all the way up here, everything has been football, football, football. And then you realize that life is much bigger than this game, especially when you start thinking about life after football and what you want to leave behind.

I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field.