Quotes about Legacy

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.

The four rings on my wedding finger are all very significant - my wedding ring, my mum's wedding ring and the engagement rings of my granny and mother-in-law.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad's camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me - his personal things mean a lot.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

I dreamed of ending my career with the Inter shirt, Inter is my house and I'll try to give my contribution off the pitch as well.

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.