Quotes About Legacy

My people never dreamed of a world like this. Of having so much without backbreaking, debilitating work. And yet for all the physical improvements, people are still people. They're killing each other to get more to prove a point only the killer understands. Still brutalizing and torturing each other over things that in another hundred years won't even matter.

Nick inherited me.

You're a good man. (Rafael) I guess we'll see in about five years, huh? If I die peacefully, then I'm good. If not, then we'll face each other again as predators. (Apollite)

She was from the bloodline of kings. He was from the bloodline of killers.' (Carlos)

My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

We only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how we lived, we all die feeling owed.

Your motivation should be sincere and your life should be of benefit to some people. That is the main thing. Don't care after my death.

If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, "Wow, that was awesome?" Or would they scratch their heads and say, "I wonder what that was all about?

Life is the childhood of immortality.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was a photographer rather than a teacher. As simple as that.

I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

I don't want to change too much. I've had a wonderful life and wonderful success. I want to make this a great success for the American people.