Quotes About Legacy

I wouldn't go as far to say that anything that I've done is timeless.

Erykah Badu - she's timeless, that's my second mom.

Things that are truly great will be timeless.

Whenever I'm making a film, it has to be timeless.

Timeless' was always gonna be the blueprint as an artist for me.

I concern myself with timelessness all the time. If you're not swinging for museum quality, your mind is not in the right place. It doesn't mean you get there, but at least it's the intent.

Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got the best backbeat I've ever heard... Paul is a fine bass player... but he's a bit overpowering at times.

I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.'

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole.

It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing.

My comic timing is completely based on Pu La's literature, his style of writing and the wittiness between the lines.

I think timing is everything. I have no regrets in my career. I've been able to make a name for myself and build my own brand.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

If you want a great replacement, like, who can follow Barack and still have that swag, that charisma, that charm and be historic - I think it would be Tina Fey for president.

I don't give a tinker's damn for posterity.

There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.