Quotes About Legacy

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Slipknot will never die. As long as we're together, it just won't. When it's time for us to end, we'll know when it's time.

Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

When you come into a house like Saint Laurent, or Chanel, or Lanvin, and you go into a place that existed before you were born and will exist after you die, it takes some time to get in, to get to people, and to get the energy of the place.

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

To retire is to die.

In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

I never think about retiring - because you retire, you die.

I always say I want to die on the eighth curtain call. Eight will mean the show's been rather a success.

I want to make music until I die.

We're all going to die.

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.

There's only going be one Richard Pryor. You know how many came out after Richard Pryor and died trying to be compared to him? Or Bernie Mac? You got to be like you.

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'

My mother's cross was given to me when she died. I like to have it always close to me.

My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

My father died in '97. But at least he lived until 93, so he saw my success.

In my career, Diego Maradona had the biggest influence on me.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.