Quotes About Legacy

I have achieved more than I could have ever imagined and feel very privileged to have played for such a long time alongside some of the greats of the English game.

People think that because I was at Liverpool for such a long time - in a period where the club was very successful - that it was bliss all the way.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.

I've impacted peoples' lives in such a way that they'll never forget.

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

You want to bring it every day. But if you have a bad day in the theatre, a couple of hundred people see it. That sucked; we'll get back to it. You have a bad day on film, it's just on DVD for the rest of your life.

Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they're icons; they loom large in our imaginations. But the truth of the matter is both women were diminutive.

The Germs' contribution to history sucks as far as I'm concerned.

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

Having the last name 'Bloomberg' sucks.

Prodigy was definitely family... It definitely sucks not to have him here.

If you take a look back at my body of work in the ring, I'm so happy that I had that NXT run... It sucks that my in-ring career came to an end, but I'm glad that I had that full-year body of work.

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.

It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

I have been playing this game since I was 7 years old, and to all of a sudden recognize that you're not going to do it anymore is hard.

You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us.

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.