Quotes About Legacy

Hanson will be associated with 'MMMBop' and long blonde hair in the same way the Beatles are associated with mop tops and suits.

Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

You've got to have new stars and you need people to pass the torch to build those stars.

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.

I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.

I'm a really big fan of Andy McKee - I think he's an amazing acoustic guitar player, and he's taken the torch from where Michael Hedges left off.

B.B. King wanted people to carry the torch. He wanted people to keep that music alive, and he would talk about it.

This race is not about me trying to beat John Lewis. It is about carrying the torch and picking up the fight.

I would love to be president. I just concluded I was not the best person to carry forward the Republican torch.

In my opinion, Slash is probably one of the last of the iconic guitar players carrying the torch of what it's really all about.

I would say at leaner times in the women's division, I feel like there were certain girls who tried to keep the torch going for women's wrestling. If I was one of those women then I feel like I did my job.

Churchill may have made some horrendous mistakes - Gallipoli, for one - but he had a sense of the profundity and integrity of the English experience. By contrast, Blair believes he excised the past in 1997, though what no one on the left seems to have realised is that his historic mission was to destroy the Labour party, not the Tories.

We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We've applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion - and we think, in our delusion, that it's still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed.

I'm trying to put on for my city. I'm trying to do what Drake did for Toronto.

I can hold my head high for what we built in Toronto.

The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.

I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

James Dean was always a tortured soul.

A big part of the fun of working on Superman has been coming up with new characters and concepts to toss in, helping to design their costumes, things like that. And I spent ages coming up with the name 'Fortress of Solidarity,' so I want to get as much use out of it as I can!

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.

I started out with Buzz Sawyer in Sacramento. He had me shoot on guys and beat them up. They tossed me a few bones here and there. But, after Buzz passed away, I started seeking training elsewhere.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.