Quotes About Legacy

I just felt I had done enough in the sport to put my stamp on boxing.

Hopefully, when we're done with the 'Korra' saga we can put our stamp on a movie.

I feel like, 20 years from now, if I can look back at a 15-year NXT career, it just means more to me. It means a lot to me to have that be something that, yeah, that was my stamp.

If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.

Let me create great music, go in the studio, and possibly become a memory and a time stamp in people's lives - and just give the best performances, because I know that's all that really matters.

I absolutely will be putting my stamp on this government and my leadership.

God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

When I was working on the unauthorized biography 'Stan Musial: An American Life,' which came out in 2011, old opponents recalled how Musial knew their names after they had been in the majors only a few days.

You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.

The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, 'What did I get out of it?' You look around, and the place is better, and that's it.

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

The work will stand, no matter what.

We stand on the shoulders of giants - and that's something we can never forget.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

I am proud of the Earnhardt name, but it don't stand alone. You know, it's part of the sport, with all those other historic people that have been a part of it, and you don't want people to forget the part you had in it and what you did and the contributions you made and the sacrifices you made.

When you look at some of the greatest people and players in the world they all stand for something outside their working lives.

When I gave up law to go into real estate, my mother said, 'How can you give up the law?' But she lived long enough to see the Bulls win all six championships. She would wear all six pendants at the same time. She could barely stand up.

'When Harry Met Sally' will endure. It will be the standard rom-com that others will improvise on for years to come.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs.

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.