Quotes About Legacy

Alexander Graham Bell brought us the telephone. He owns the telephones in the buildings. Thomas Edison owns the lightbulb. Whether they took it and did things to improve it, he's the guy. Now on the dance floor, that belongs to Chubby Checker.

I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.

To apply Kim Jong Il's patriotism means to thoroughly materialize the General's intentions and desires for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of all generations to come and to carry on all work for achieving the prosperity of the country in the way he did.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Garden as though you will live forever.

When people still see me, even though I have been in Green Bay and Oakland, they still talk about Michigan.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

My grandfather, Daddy Jeff, made me promise to him that even though I'm already an actress, I'd still finish school.

I want my kids to have a life like I did growing up. The greatest gift I was given in life was from my parents. Though I can't match them, I'd like to be that kind of parent.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

I always thought I would die of cancer because my mom and my dad both died of cancer. My dad died of osteocancer, and my mom died of colon cancer.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

If a kid's trying to be the next Danny Green, that's weird for me. That's surreal, humbling and hard to put in a thought process.

And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.

All my kids' given names, the first names, are all from people in my life, and they have my husband's last name. And we were very thoughtful about it.

Most times, Mother Earth's resources are used up without the realisation that these thoughtless actions might just be the root cause for the hardships future generations may face. It is everyone's responsibility to hand over a green, clean, and healthy environment to them.

You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.