Quotes About Legacy

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and really established ourselves as the best team in the world.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

Even after going to law school, following the footsteps of my father (an accomplished lawyer and judge at the time); I realized that the suit would never replace the kimono!

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Rich with the spoils of time.