Quotes About Legacy

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

My father, Subhash Chandra Arora, was the Principal at the ABJ School, and my mother was the headmistress.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

Even if the KKK isn't the outsized presence it once was in this country, many of its principles and ideas are alive and well.

Our love for the Founders leads us to abandon, and even to betray, the very principles they fought for.

George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.

I have acquired many wonderful principles from my family, and I intend to follow these for the rest of my life.

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one I'm most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.

Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I was 2, and I have never met him and have no memory of him.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.

Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.

When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.

I'm really proud of a lot of the achievements we've made as a government but obviously I'll be putting my mark on the premiership and doing things that I think are important in terms of my own personal priority.