Quotes About Legacy

My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.

Connecticut has a proud tradition of manufacturing going back to the days of Eli Whitney.

India has a very good tradition in tennis.

I feel like I'm a torchbearer for jazz, fostering its tradition but its future, too.

Every time a bookseller hands a child a book, they are doing something that is the heart and soul of the American dream and the American ideal. It's a very sacred tradition.

There's no dancer alive better than those of the 1950s and 1960s. It's only the energy that changes. Every now and then, someone like me comes along, and people say, 'Oh, this guy is this new thing.' But that's not so. There is no me without them. The tradition just goes on.

Long Island has a great boxing tradition.

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition.

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

'The Godfather' illustrated the family values - the reality that it was really a family thing, honor and tradition. It wasn't just a single-dimension thing.

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll.

Tradition in fashion is held with such a high regard.

I think of people like Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes. They all came out of the South, and they followed a certain tradition and energy. That's no knock to groups like The Temptations or The Supremes, not at all, but they were way more polished in how they did things.

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

Singing 'Family Tradition' with Hank Jr. was a pee-your-pants moment. Hank comes over while I'm singing and puts his arm around me, and my knees nearly buckled. You can put off the fact that this is reality, but when he came over, there was just no denying. I just lost cabin pressure.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

The destruction of Chinese traditional culture didn't start in 1949. It started long before that, with the succession of revolutions. It was particularly bad during the Cultural Revolution, the destruction of traditional Chinese culture.

You're gonna get your traditional Busta Rhymes and Pharrell collabo. My man Focus from the Aftermath crew; Dr. Dre; the late, great J Dilla got work on the album. It's gonna be great - look forward to the new bang-out.

I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.