Quotes About Legacy

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln faced enormous difficulties, but they both gave their lives to make sure America survived.

Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan?

In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.

Our democracy has survived for so many years in India. We should at least give credit to the Congress for that.

The one amazing thing about 'Jack' is that I did it in 2001, you know, and it still survived. There's something about it that's connected with people.

I've learnt to separate the woman who was my mother from the person who was a movie star. The star has survived, my mother didn't.

I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.

It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

Maybe people will remember me for being a stylist, not a survivor.

I grew up in a household with my mother, who was a Holocaust survivor. I very much understand the mentality that you cannot live in the past. You can't spend your entire life, or even portions of it, looking back and dwelling on things that have already happened. You have to move forward.

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.

I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

Phil is a child of Holocaust survivors.

The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.

Susan Brooks is a hard-working public servant who has spent her career fighting for Hoosiers. In Congress, she was the first woman from Indiana to chair a committee, and has become one of the most effective lawmakers in Washington: her dedicated work on behalf of her constituents and our state will be missed.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves.

I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other side. Irish and French, that's what I feel. When you're young, it doesn't matter so much, but as you get older, I would suspect part of the ageing process is to wonder about your ancestors - who were they? What were their lives like?

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness.