Quotes About Legacy

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.

Tradition is a very powerful force.

I've studied my culture deeply and I'm very aware of my tradition.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

When I was in high school, I looked for the black presence in a British historical tradition - before too much slavery and empire - that would not cost me my self-respect.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.