Quotes About Legacy

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

I am fortunate that I was born in a family where music was already a part of life.

After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.

When you see the commitment my parents exhibited... it was not for fame or fortune.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.

A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.

I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema.

I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.

No one is the same after I fought them - Hearns, Duran, Leonard. All of them.

If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don't vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents' parents fought for?

That's one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That's the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don't want to bore people my last three or four fights.

I never fought for money. I had a good career and legacy as featherweight champion.

I just want to be able to say I fought the best fighters in the world.

I don't think I had one personal foul in my career. Now, that being said, no one can ever say I never brought it.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.

I probably will have to become more political down the road when my playing days are done, because I'm going to have to have the support of others to grow my foundation.

My parents lovingly passed down the lessons of their lives so that my sister, Jana, and I may also teach our children the foundational principles of a life well lived. There was something else my father passed on, quite unintentionally, I'm sure: learning disabilities. My father is dyslexic, and so am I.

The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being given away. And even if you are dead, it was your money before.

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.