Quotes About Legacy

All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.

I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.

Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

I have played with some great players during my time at United but I would have to put Paul Scholes down as the best.

I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.