Quotes About Legacy

I've gotten lots of great advice from lots of people that I admire, but the person who influenced me more than anyone in my life was my grandmother.

That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.

I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.

I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.

Who influenced me the most? I'd have to say Lauryn Hill, I think she influenced me the most.

Somebody who really influenced me since a kid was Lil Phat. He was just telling his life story.

The two biggest influences of the '70s were Don Cornelius and Bruce Lee.

One of my biggest influences is Fela Kuti.

From when I first started listening to music, M. S. Subbulakshmi has been one of my biggest influences. She poured her heart and life into everything she sang.

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

I think on some level, you always carry your first and biggest influences with you, whether it's the Allman Brothers or Col. Bruce Hampton, people that you learned a huge amount of what you do from. So it's always there.

I think my grandmother was one of my biggest influences.

Pantera is one of our biggest influences, as it should be for anyone who listens to rock 'n' roll.

Rush and guitarist Alex Lifeson are among my biggest influences.

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

My father and one of my grandfathers died very early, and female figures have been an influential part of my life.

The past has to inform the present.

I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.

What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues of backward agricultural economies. And it goes on.