Quotes About Legacy

I can't imagine writing something that didn't address Jewish themes and questions. It's such a big part of my life, a lot of the way in which I experience the world.

Obviously, the 'Rocky' theme is one of the most recognizable themes in film.

In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.

Every day should be a good day. People fool themselves that they'll be here forever.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

My mother imparted on me that I must be a good custodian of my father's name and that is what I ask of my children. One should conduct themselves in the correct manner, respect one's elders and do the right thing.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

There are heroes and then there are legends, heroes get remembered but legends never die.

I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.

A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers like Theodore Morse, Charles K. Harris, and Ernest R. Ball, who wrote 'Let the Rest of the World Go By.'

President Theodore Roosevelt, who signed the Antiquities Act into law, created 18 monuments, including the Grand Canyon and Olympic National Park in Washington, totaling more than a million acres.

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

FDR's justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution is, two of which are considered conservative and two of which are considered liberal.

That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am. Therefore, I want to play in all formats of the game and to play as much as possible because, before long, it will be over.

I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.