Quotes About Legacy

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

We're drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it. Once you start drawing, writing, and gluing stuff in every day, it can quickly become a habit - addictive, even. Your attitude should be: 'I can do this, but I mustn't make it too intimidating.'

I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.

My father was a journalist.

I am greatly influenced by my father who was a journalist.

Everyone in the league has a journey or a legacy, whether you're in the league for five years or you're in the league for one year.

My family's journey is something I am very proud of - in front of me, behind me and every part.

As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.

I have a joyful life, and I attribute that to both of my parents.

I think I am an artist. I think I am Juan Gabriel, who has given so much with my songs.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

'Konnichiwa,' to me, is a classic because I don't make music for today where everyone is going to judge what I did in two years; they're gonna tell me today.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

At the end of the day, my career is not going to be judged by one or two or three moments in time. It'll be judged by the longevity of it.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

I think without a doubt there will never be a voice like Judy Garland.