Quotes About Legacy

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

Everyone wants to procreate, have a miniature version of themselves running around, to carry on the family line.

Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf.

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.

I promised my dad before he passed away that I would take care of the family.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren I'd have had them first.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days.

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.

The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.

It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts but this is not true of a family tree.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.

Draw great strength from your family and give in turn to those who come after you.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

I'm proud that I have done so many different kinds of things and maintained an amazing family. And I think that's the joy: that I've been able to have everything.

I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

If you feel that . . . what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren't very famous either.

I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.