Quotes About Legacy

There is nobody else out there that I would put ahead of Joe Greene. By far the best Steeler of all time.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn't born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that.

Every football player knows when his time is up.

If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

Meadowlark inspired me to play for a long time. I thought, 'If he could do it, I can do it.' The legacy that Meadowlark leaves is something that every child and adult can benefit from.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

There will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you.

When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time

It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.

Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

What should I do if my problems aren't all solved by the time I die?

Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.