Quotes About Legacy

John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense.

The reality is that some Kapoors did reach the marquee; others did not.

Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

I've changed my whole angle for dance. I'm moving towards moving back rather than hanging out with my peers. I'm reaching back to older dudes for a second.

I left Brazil very early, before reaching the top level of the Brazilian championship. That made a difference: I was not seen as a 'name' around the country.

My grandmother was kind, but she knew what she wanted and she wasn't afraid to give a command. When, eventually, I ran my own kitchen, I realized I had a leadership model reaching back into my earliest memories.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

I think the Duke of Edinburgh would have been pleasantly surprised by the reaction to his death.

Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on.

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.

A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.