Quotes About Legacy

We are a rugby family really. My dad and both granddads played rugby. Dad was good, on his way to Bath until he broke his leg. My brother Harry got an invitation to go and play for Bristol. I go and watch Sale Sharks and have been to Twickenham a few times.

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

Lists, and lists of lists, invite many questions and one that crops up here is: what makes a children's book last? When it's books for very young children, this is a matter that is almost entirely at the behest of adults - parents, teachers, critics, librarians.

My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like that. I think I learned so much from him.

My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.

Every backstory involves my father. I remember hearing Gary Oldman talking about backstories and saying, 'I got to stop using my father...' And I feel the same way. I don't know. What I come up with always involves some element of this son trying to prove himself to his father.

A critical part of our relationship with Laos involves addressing the legacy of war.

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

I don't think the majority of people - to be quite honest - care. I think they see me as someone who was at one stage of my life in the IRA, but they see me in the round, as someone who was able to make peace.

I've had a couple of times where things were so extraordinary wonderful that it changed my world. One of them was when I met Ira Gershwin and started working with him. That was a game-changer for me. It changed the entire course and direction of my life.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

I wanted to grow up to be George and Ira Gershwin from the age of about six.

I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.

Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

Born in Russia, forged in Ireland, they don't make them like this anymore.

I think people saw him as someone who did good things for Ireland. If you looked at all the Irish actors in 'Excalibur' alone - Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson - there was a whole gaggle of Irish actors who've gone on to become stars, so Dad was really part of that.

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.

I've been really inspired by my roots - my ancestors and Irish history.

I am immensely proud of my Irish roots.