Quotes About Legacy

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.

This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That's flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I'll know that it's time to retire to the Jewish ranch.

I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.