Quotes About Legacy

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after

I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

As fate would have it, Jay's status appears To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.

I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

History is the daughter of time.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

What will you do with the time you have left?

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes

History happens one person at a time.

I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.