Quotes About Legacy

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

I am proud of Hillary Clinton because she has been and is a great history maker - in everything she has done.

My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

I just want to be remembered as a great actor.

The great thing about being a Yankee is that youre always a Yankee.

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.

Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

I never had a great role in a great film.