Quotes About Legacy

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

If any of you cry at my funeral I'll never speak to you again.

I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.

Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.

My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to put down. A tremendous debut.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.

Be careful of your actions. You never know when you're creating a memory...

When you are right, no one remembers; when you are wrong, no one forgets.

Isnt that what being young is about, believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man that would live forever?

In order to leave a big mark on this world we must live our lives as our selves, and only ourselves.

To be born with a personality is a gift from your parents. But to die as a personality is an achievement of your own.

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

God calls us not to be successful but to be significant. When we focus on Significance, success is often part of the package.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look...like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

10 years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash; Now we have no Jobs, no Hope and no Cash.

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.