Quotes About Legacy

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of white Americans have, which is, well, we came from Europe. And we arrived here.

I arrived at Inter when I was very young and I had the chance to play with Giuseppe Bergomi, and I met Giacinto Facchetti too.

I spent nine years at Arsenal, which makes the club really special for me.

One thing is sure: I really enjoyed my five years at Arsenal.

I play the way I do because it's the Arsenal way.

Arsenal will always remain a large club.

Wenger built this club and it is hard to imagine Arsenal without him.

I spent six beautiful years at Arsenal.

Leaving Arsenal was the most difficult decision of my career.

Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.

There is nothing more happier for a father than to lose in his son's hands. I hope my son becomes a better artiste than I am.

Prince had always told us he just wanted to get through this thing called life. But now that his own physical life has ended, his artistic life will continue.

My father was quiet and more artistic.

I've never made a record that I'm ashamed of.

I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.

You know there is something a little bit special about an Ashes.

Every time you're involved in an Ashes series, as soon as it finishes at the back of your mind you start thinking about the next one.

That fellow was partly the cause of his mother's death. He chose to be a commercial traveller; and the trade just suited him, for he was no sooner in the house than he wanted to be out of it; he couldn't keep in one place, and he wouldn't learn anything. All I ask of God is that I may die before he dishonors my name. Those who have no children lose many pleasures, but they escape great sufferings.

Apropos of this, I asked my father one day whether it would be possible for me to see Mme. de Stael. My father, mother, and Alphonse all burst out laughing, and Alphonse said: "Where in the world has she sprung from?" To which my father replied: "What fools we are! She springs from the Carmelites." "My child, Mme. de Stael is dead," said my mother gently.

In these days rich families stand between the danger of impoverishing their children if they have too many, or of extinguishing their names if they have too few, — a singular result of the Code which Napoleon never thought of.

Tive agora a noção do que é ser pobre, ao desejar ter fortuna para dar ao meu filho

Llega un momento, en la vida interior de las familias, que los hijos, voluntaria o involuntariamente, se convierten en jueces de sus padres

Los hombres de genio no tenían hermanos ni hermanas, ni padres ni madres; las grandes obras que habrían de crear les imponían un egoísmo aparente al obligarles a sacrificarlo todo a su grandeza.