Quotes About Legacy

I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

To retire is the beginning of death.

My father knew all about this stuff [C.W. Leadbeater]. I owe a lot of what I'm doing, I think, to him. I'm sort of continuing my father's work.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.