Quotes About Legacy

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.

I was raised in a family dedicated to public service.

I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.

I may be leaving the Senate, but the next chapter in my public service is just beginning.

I'm inspired by my family's legacy of public service. It's something that I'm very proud of.

Without question, my grandfather's example of public service throughout his life inspired Dad later to run for office himself. Wherever he went, whatever he did, Prescott Bush had plenty of admirers.

I was interested in public service, and looking back at my father, my grandfather and two great-grandfathers, well, yeah, that's what they did, too. And I think public service, like journalism, done right is a really honourable, really important profession.

I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.

I'm most interested in public service. I think that's something that I got from being part of my family, which is such an honor.

My grandfather Prescott passed down the idea that you would only run for office after you had built a financial base - then it was time to give back and go into public service.

I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity.

I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.

When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.

In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!

My grandmother had a couple of strange books published by the Woolfs. I didn't know her - she was dead by the time I was born. But I knew my grandfather. He was lovely.

My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon's second largest newspaper. He was a pretty amazing guy.

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

Johnson Publishing Co. has always had a first-class image. And until the day I die, I want to keep that image.

What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

I just want to keep the Puerto Rican tradition of champions alive.

They said you'd really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was an American player. What we needed was a Puerto Rican player they could say that about, someone to look up to and try to equal.