Quotes About Legacy

My favorite record of all time is Tom Petty's 'Wildflowers.' I hold it as the standard - in terms of sonics, sequencing, and songs. It shows that making a complete record is important, rather than just making a single.

Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.

I can tell my grandkids that I played with Drew Brees and Tom Brady, and Flacco will definitely be added to that list.

I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich will continue.

Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.

Today, actors aren't forced to ditch their regional accents like they used to. The best example's Tom Baker, a Scouser who went to great lengths to change his accent and ended up with something alien - and fantastic. It's sad that when the likes of him go, there won't be those sorts of accents any more.

I dare anybody to display a more amazing body of work than Tom Petty.

It is really disturbing to see that every Tom, Dick and Harry starts singing compositions of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan as there is no one to claim it.

When you go back and listen to 30 years of Tom Petty records, they are pretty consistent. I love that.

With Tom Brady, quarterbacks are playing now until they're about 60 years old.

Tom Brady. He is good looking.

What Tom Brady did over the history of my life is the greatest thing I've seen in sports.

Tom Brady is the two best quarterbacks of all time.

I've been just trying to master that same edge that a Tom Brady or Drew Brees has; when he steps into a building, you know he's there.

Whether it's Tom Hanks or whether it's the character of Robert Langdon himself, both loom as large.

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

With something like 'Tomb Raider,' it's very intimidating to step into the boots of Lara Croft.

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of my devotees.

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

The presence of industrial quantities of Byzantine pottery dating from the sixth century AD on the headland at Tintagel, Chinese silk in the tombs around Mecca and 'Arabic' numerals in the 13th-century beams of Salisbury Cathedral tell us we have been interdependent not for decades but across millennia.

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'