Quotes About Legacy

I do sometimes stop and think. I mean, I'm 62 now and I've got a child on my shoulders and he could be my grandson.

I may never know what type of effect I have on my sons, just like Granny never knew the effect she had on me. So I just try and make the best decisions that I can, be the best father that I can.

It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.

If you are a regular at Manchester United, I think you should grasp the opportunity to stay here and become part of the history.

If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.

Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

It's gratifying when younger women come up and say, 'I went to law school because of you.' My heart swells; then it's like, wait, are you glad, or do you blame me?

I always get the fathers and the younger grandpas coming up to me and telling me how much they loved me even though I was a bad guy for most of my run. But the most gratifying thing to me is when I have the young guys who cheer for John Cena come up to me and tell me how cool I am.

Dead white guys built this country. Show some gratitude and show some reverence. But as far as slavery, yeah. It's part of history. And you know what? It's something we should be proud of. Because we ended it.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

I'd love to do a play with Ma but I don't know whether that's like literally filling in your own grave and putting the gravestone on top.

I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.

I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

I don't want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don't want to carry around anything I don't have to. I want to travel light.

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.

Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after 'The Kid.' A great artist, one of the greatest, but I'm afraid I don't think very much of him as a man. Running away from the country that gave him everything and denouncing the country in addition is something you simply can't make any allowances for.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

I'm still asked a great deal about 'The Wicker Man' because it's become one of the great cult movies of all time. That's the story of my career, really, making cult movies. And I've always said it's the best film I've ever made.