I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.
I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.
Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
If, when I leave this earth, I’m remembered for ‘Fargo,’ so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge.
I’m all about leaving a legacy behind and trying to cement myself as one of the greats. I don’t just want to be remembered as the guy who beat Michael Phelps at the 2012 London Olympics – a one-hit wonder – I want to be an inspiration to the kids.
I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.
I just want to be remembered as somebody who paid his debts.
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.
I have no great interest in being remembered as a great creative filmmaker.
People are always going to say, ‘Who’s he beat? He’s only beat Cowboy.’ So what you’re trying to tell me is Cowboy is a nobody? Cowboy will be remembered as one of the greatest fighters of all time. And I beat him in one round.
I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.
No matter where you play, you want to be remembered.
People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don’t. I never expected to be remembered for anything!
I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing.
Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those ‘old-timers’ ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of ‘Black Mecca’ are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.
If I’m ever lucky enough to be part of an awards tribute, I hope they play ‘Muffin Top’ in my little clip. That’s how I want to be remembered.
I don’t remember Bill Walsh being old. I remember young Bill Walsh. He wasn’t gray-haired, and neither was I when we first met. His legacy will live on. Bill Walsh’s name and his accomplishments will be remembered and revered so long as the great game of football is played.
I’d rather be remembered for being kind than for my achievements.
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.
We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
You are remembered for the rules you break.
The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
Winning and making history is something you can’t buy. Me? I’m a guy who loves history. When I’m 60 or 70, I don’t want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read ‘Hamlet’ in high school, and when I went back and read it, no, she’s not.
I think I have a great voice, but it’s not special enough to be remembered. But what’s special about me is much more than just my voice.
I’ve had a lot of good nights, and ideally, I don’t want to be remembered for a bad night.
Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn’t show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.
I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
In fact, I get angry when people laugh at me. I go to the airport and the ground hostess starts laughing at me when she sees me. I get irritated and ask them if I just did some comedy for them to laugh like that. But then I apologise because I know they must have remembered some movie scene that I did.
I am not a superstar, nor do I want to be remembered as one. I have always been a team player.
I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became ‘Amelia’s Notebook.’
I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.
It’s the community that helps form our moral compass. It’s those attitudes that I’ve remembered through my entire lifetime.
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
Garcia name is going to be remembered in the boxing game for a long time.
I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.
I’d like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.
If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn’t abandon it. Because I remembered: There’s always more.
I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.
I would say that how we want to be remembered is by inspiring the next generation, and that goes for Canadians and anyone in the world. Hopefully ice dance has come to a new level.
Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she’d retired the day after she recorded ‘I Feel Love’ in 1977.
It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.
I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.
I just want to fight and be remembered as the best, who fought everyone and beat them. Then the money, the numbers, the records, they all chase me.
Of all the restaurants I visited in my childhood and adolescence, it was Michel Bras that I remembered most vividly and it was the chef himself to whom, early on in my cooking, I would make the most references. I don’t mean that I tried to cook like him. Rather, that I tried to think like him.
I want to be remembered.
I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation’s great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation’s great public servants.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
It is impossible for you to be remembered as a great team if you do not win the Champions League.
I’d like to be remembered a little bit for my performances.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They’re remembered by the arts.
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
When I’m 80 years old, I don’t know what I want to be remembered for.
The ones that sell the most aren’t the ones that are remembered.
The first time I heard ‘Sharknado,’ I thought it was a late-night infomercial for a new vacuum cleaner. Could have swore I ordered one once. Then I found out what it was and remembered that I grew up reading the ‘Sharknado’ novels.
But you are always remembered for how many Slams you win, not weeks at No. 1.
The process was remarkably cathartic. I’d sit and listen to my father’s voice – having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner – and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.
I don’t want to be remembered for dunks, even though that will probably happen.
But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.
