Quotes About Legacy

I gave up at the right time, scoring a goal against Derby. I didn't hear anybody shouting, 'Please stop, you are getting too old.' That's a success. And I don't want to come back for the sake of it.

Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.

Obviously I descend from Africa.

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

I am of an African-Jamaican descent.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Those who belong to the film families may have a certain advantage, but nobody can keep you in this business if you don't deserve it.

I certainly don't think I'm deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There's a whole generation of people yet to be born that are going to be so much more evolved than I am. I don't want to take up space. They're going to be better equipped to make the world a better place than I am.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the actions that I took that were designed to help them.

For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.

I want to die at my desk.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

My dad moved to Britain from Bangladesh in the 1960s to work as an actuary for Prudential. However, after seeing an empty retail space in Soho, he decided to open an Asian restaurant instead, despite not having any business experience.

A country which does not create children is destined to die.

Just knowing your dad is a professional basketball player, it just makes you feel like you're destined for.

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.

We, as the Marley family, won't be responsible for destroying the community.

The biggest pieces of my business are not public. Maybe I'll tell all the details when I'm 50 or 60.