Quotes About Legacy

I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.

Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.

The English take the breeding of their horses and dogs more seriously than they do their children. God forbid that the wrong drop of blood should get into their labrador. But their children marry everywhere.

I want to protect my legacy. I've trained great horses.

I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.

Peyton Manning donated, I think, $10 million to start a children's hospital here in Indianapolis. Whenever you see something like that, you go, 'Okay, not only can I be great on the football field, I can also be great off of the field.'

I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.

A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.

I don't want to be the next hottest thing, I want longevity.

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

God has been kind, people have given me a household name. Even after 30 years, they think I am Duryodhana.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

My mum liked gospel and R&B, Chaka Khan, and Whitney Houston.

I'm really proud of what we are building at the University of Houston, and hope I spend the rest of my career here.

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few generations.

I want to see how far I can get, how many history making things I can put my name under.

How many people get to say a '30 for 30' is being made about them?

When we were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I asked the guy who runs it, 'How many people in here have had only two albums?' He could not think of one person.

I can't tell you how many times someone has written me and said, 'I became a doctor because of you' or 'I became a dancer because of you.'

Leaving a legacy behind is huge.

I'm a huge Marvin Gaye fan.