Quotes About Legacy

I definitely inherited a lot of from both my grandmothers and from my mother. I wear a lot of pieces that used to belong to other people.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.

I love guys who have roots. Paul Pierce has roots embedded in Boston.

I want to be the next Paul Pierce.

I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.

My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

People really are very concerned when they put their head on the pillow at night - they're concerned that America may cease to be what America has been because we are leveraging the future of our children and our grandchildren.

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

The Foundation and Pink Day are about celebrating and hope, I know when the time comes and I move on, if I have people celebrating my life and what I bring to the world I'll be happy.

A piece that is extremely close to my heart is a gold ring with bouts of mint and baby pink that my grandfather gave to my mother and she passed it down to me. What's sweet is that it has my grandparent's name on the flipside.

If you call making people smile with 'The Pink Panther,' then I made a contribution.

The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

I think my deepness came from Pink Floyd. And Jimi Hendrix was my idol. I always wanted to be like him.

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.

Dhoni has changed the face of Indian cricket and took them to the pinnacle of success, and his captaincy will be missed by the Indian team. He has led them well in all formats.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

I could go fishing with Paul Gascoigne, I could go for a pint and a game of doms with Ian Durrant. There's no way I would play now rather than the era I played in. We had a life.

My grandfather, K.R. Balan, a pioneer in the film industry, wanted me to try my hand at acting.

I don't care about being a pioneer. People act like it would be cool to be a pioneer. I'm okay to be looked at as that, but it's just that we don't get transmitted our cultural heritage as women artists.

Antoine 'Fats' Domino was a 1950s rock n' roll pioneer, a larger-than-life New Orleans figure, and a role model for the African-American community in a time of deep segregation.

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

You look at the pioneers that have paved the way for players like myself. Sometimes, you just sit back and scratch your head.