Quotes About Legacy

I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

John Grisham is one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience.

DC is the foundation of what we all know about comic books and heroes. They've had great storytellers, great illustrates, as a part of that tradition.

I come from a big family where we tell big stories. All we had was the storytelling.

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me.

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

Platforms - they come and go, but storytelling is forever.

Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to.

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

I want to make sure my family's straight.

From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.

I'm an old-fashioned English lit. man. Straight down the line - it's George Eliot, it's Dickens, it's Dr. Johnson, it's Jane Austen.

My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way.

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.