Quotes About Legacy

I love that sense of discovery. You're experiencing something for the first time, and your parents aren't in on it, previous generations aren't in on it. It has a chance to belong to you and your generation in a way that nothing has. If 'Pacific Rim' is a fraction of that, I would be very proud.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

My great-grandparents have some beautiful sculptures which have come down the generations. They are priceless and whenever I look at them, I am inspired.

How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'

The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

I take pride in saying that I am an army officer's daughter even more than being an actor.

My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.

I've been given the opportunity to carry forward the legacy with which people associate me; I can't escape it even if I don't like it. I take pride in carrying forward what's been given to me.

I always say, no matter what happens to me as a black man in country music, I can handle it if Charley Pride could handle all the stuff he went through.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Football is one of the main things I can look back on with pride.

My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.'

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

I always say I wish I was in my prime matching up against LeBron. Let's see how many championships he would have won then.

You can't pretend there has ever been anyone come close to doing what I did. Nobody you could name could touch me, and I'm talking about nobody who's around now, nobody who was around in my prime, and nobody who was around any time you can mention outta your mouth.