Quotes About Legacy

I'm glad I was part of history, here long after I'm gone.

When I'm dead and gone and my dad is dead and gone, he and I will share a championship with the last name Elliott forever. I don't think it gets any cooler than that.

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

The foundation that has made America that last, best hope on earth hasn't gone anywhere. It still exists. It is up to us to return to it.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

Tuff Gong is the name of our father's enterprise, and we're continuing his legacy.

Because the Vikings never documented anything - they couldn't read or write - the history is always gonna be a little up in the air.

When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.

I'm gonna be famous forever.

When I finish contributing, I feel like I've left enough to where people are gonna say, 'They got that from Too $hort.' I'm not gonna fade away.

If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

I know I haven't spent a lot of time with my children because my job takes me all over the world and takes me away from my children, but I've given them a good education and security. If anything happens to me, my children's future is well-secured. So I think I've done well as a father.

My most important legacy is being a good father to my two children.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.

When you do a good film, it will remain forever.

I hope I've made a good film. And before you ask, a good film is one that I'd see three years from now and not cringe.

I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing going on.

When we lost Glen Campbell, we lost an American original. We also lost a really good man.

If you want to do good material and you're lucky enough to get a chance to do it, then chances are probably somebody pretty nifty will have been there before you.

I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.