Quotes About Legacy

Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.

Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.

Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

When you think about Walt [Disney]'s life, I don't know of anybody on Earth over the last hundred years who has touched as many people as he did. He's touched every nation on Earth.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

I wish to die painting.

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

Every human being has inside them something more important than him or herself - his or her Gift.

Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.

The Warrior remembers the past.

Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.