Quotes About Legacy

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

Folks always look good in their coffins.

When I die, so does hip hop.

All geniuses die young.

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.

Does it bother me that I'm attached to 'Three's Company' 30 years after? Not at all. All we were trying to do was be funny. How can I complain? That's all I wanted to do.

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.

The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

David McCullough, John Adams

I have great respect for you - once you are dead, and gone

We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there's no wind.

Every morning I read the obituaries. If it ain't there I make myself a cup of tea and carry on like I have the past century or so.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

My gramps is a lot like you. No sense of adventure. All he does is sit in his urn...

Why would a comediotic guy like Buzz Aldrin worry about who said what first? He was on the %$#@!+-oon!

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.

I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.