Quotes About Legacy

My grandfather used to be a chef and I remember going to his restaurant to peel potatoes and clean his floor. He used to go out and kiss all the girls in the restaurant and I thought 'oh this is good... one day I want to be like him.'

My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films.

My dad was a big man - six-foot-seven and 300 pounds - and very strong.

Back in the day, a lot of running backs used to be 230 pounds, ground and pound the ball right up the middle. One thing I pride myself is being able to do what those guys do, as well.

I'm in spend-down. I've got a billion in cash. You can't leave people a billion pounds, can you?

My great-grandfather started in the coal mines, and my great grandmother made 10 pounds of bread every Saturday morning that we delivered to the neighbors. It was always about giving back. These kinds of things drive me to make a difference.

I had a lot of my success due to appearing at the Garden. I wrestled there over 200 times, it's where I won the title, and it's where I picked up 630-plus pounds of Haystacks Calhoun.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle.

Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

If the constitution goes, I go.

There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.

Nadine Gordimer came over just before she died. She didn't want to talk about books or the arts, but about the abuse of the constitution by the government.

We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.