Quotes About Legacy

We can't leave this world without leaving a lot of detritus behind. We never go out as cleanly as we come in; and even when we come in, there's the afterbirth.

Somewhere, somewhere in this house, lurked a problem. For some reason, Jane's legacy wasn't entirely benevolent.

relaxing, intelligent feeling of being surrounded by generation after generation of thought.

Then my great-grandfather was gone before I could ask him which vampire he meant.

I owed her big-time. Jane had left me the house and the money and the skull. I

I have always been fascinated by the story of Henrietta Lacks.

I love Strapping Young Lad. I'm incredibly proud of that band; I'm incredibly proud of everything we did.

When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'People' magazine thought I was sexy!'

I was one of the innovators of the TLC Match; some would arguably say that I am the master of the Ladder Match.

I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There's no legislative authority; you're not elected. And that's a wonderful gift of freedom.

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

Jackie Kennedy was the most appropriately dressed first lady we've ever had. You can see how lasting Jackie's style is.

You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen.

'My Fair Lady' and Eliza Doolittle will go on long after me, and someone else will step into it for their moment. That's what's so beautiful about revivals: There have been so many interpretations, and we're just giving it what we can.

I loved 'The Carol Burnett Show' - I thought she was the funniest lady I'd ever seen.

If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.

Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor laid the groundwork for us as Indian-Americans. How can we add our story to their groundwork is the question.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

I definitely had very strong male figures in my life, who, when I look back, clearly laid the foundations to who I am.

I still feel like there are so many things that I have to do to really become an icon. I've done a lot and laid down a lot of groundwork, but there's so much more work to be done. There's a lot more that I want to do, LGBTQ centers that I want to open. After I leave my legacy, then I will be that icon.

I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos. I'm sure he got a million of them.