Quotes About Legacy

Death is shot through with the details and colours of the lives that were lived.

While I do not want to live my life like Lemmy chose to live his, I can't help but admire the strength and determination it took for Lem to do it all on his own terms and remain true to himself.

Sometimes you can't be a champion. That doesn't determine who you are. But you can be a champion father, and that means everything.

I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it and to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

Your success can't be determined by your surname but only by your work.

A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people's legacy starts late or starts early, or they last a long time or a short amount of time. As a musician, I've never taken an approach of wanting to try to control that because I don't think that I can.

As a sports person, you are always aware that at some point your career is coming to an end and you have to do something else. I always knew it had to end one day, and I was very determined to make sure I wasn't going to be known as an ex-racing driver.

Gunsmoke' had been a successful radio show for many years before and I was determined to go with it on TV.

There's been a thing with Detroit and the Bulls ever since I've been in the league.

Greatest Detroit MC... Eminem.

Do I miss him? Of course I do. Every day. His death was devastating, he was just 51. But you know, in my stand-up my Dad will always be alive. He's so much part of my act.

We don't want to just put logos on somebody's devices. It needs to feel like Nokia, what Nokia was known for.

You bear the weight of the club's history on your shoulders, and you only become a true Red Devil once you understand this.

Colin Powell devoted himself to the betterment of this country and of every American in all that he did. His legacy and character is one we must remember, and one that we should each seek to emulate in all that we do.

I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.

I grew up in a home where diamonds were the subject.

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.

When I die, I want to come back as Bobby Layne's chauffeur.

I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.