Quotes About Legacy

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

Our dad was a singer and keyboardist and was in bands throughout his whole life. He was in a band called Sweathog that opened for Black Sabbath and eventually was the lead singer of Tower of Power for a few years.

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

There is this place called the Tower of London and I think if I wrote about any Royal figure as recent as the 20th Century I might end up there!

I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.

The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.

As for my all-time sporting hero? There is one who towers above all. I first knew him when he was called Cassius Clay but it was when he changed his name to Muhammad Ali that I became mesmerised by him.

My maternal great-grandfather Don Juan del Gallego was a Spanish adventurer from Asturias, Spain. He sailed on a galleon ship to the Philippines. He then went to the Bicol region to build a town that eventually became known as Del Gallego.

She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

When peaceful reunification comes, the first thing I want to do is to take my 90-year-old mother and go to her home town.

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.

I didn't want to be the guy who screwed up 'Toy Story.'

People loved the first two 'Toy Story' films so much, and the last thing I wanted to do was make a disappointing third film.