Quotes About Legacy

I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake.

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

I think I have a newfound respect for what my parents did, to create two players - one who was really good and another who was pretty good.

Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. Ive showed them a certain respect for this career.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

I have great respect for the past.

Respect Death and You Live In Life

Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Lynet scowled. "I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.