Quotes About Legacy

When you receive an education, you pass it on.

It's an honor to sit back and see people loving the things that you did 25 years ago and still be here and be amongst the crowd to receive those blessings.

I don't want people to receive me because I scored 20 points. I want it to be because I made an impression on them that lasts forever.

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.

I can only speak from experience, but as a little kid I remember Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes, Dawn Staley and Cynthia Cooper. I remember the mainstream media being involved and how much exposure they received.

I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.

I want to go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, receiver of my era.

What defines greatness is when you hold all the records and what you mean to your fans, on and off the field, because that is who ranks you as the greatest receiver of all-time. The guy that holds all the records, the guy that has set the stage for all of us, you have to give it to Jerry Rice.

I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush.

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves.

We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.

I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at the time she was alive. I consider my tributes to him my most important works.

It's a big responsibility, I think, when you play somebody who has existed but also somebody who has just recently passed away.

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

In 1984, Jim Koch used his family's lager recipe to start Boston Beer Company, which has since become the largest 'craft' brewer in the country. He brews Samuel Adams, a rich lager named after the American revolutionary that comes with the tagline, 'Take pride in your beer.'