Time, Aging & Legacy: Legacy & Remembrance Quotes

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Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"The best artists are gone now"

Johnny Winter, Musician

"It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special"

Frank Gifford, Athlete

"I believe that, my choosing my present course, I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... Don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back"

Thierry Henry, Athlete

"I feel that my whole life is a contribution"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year"

John Thorn, Historian

"It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him"

Thierry Henry, Athlete

"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water"

Kate Chopin, Author

"Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic"

Fiona Apple, Musician

"But I do think it's unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America"

John Cornyn, Politician

"Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined"

Michael Arad, Architect

"September 11 is one of our worst days, but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for"

Lamar Alexander, Politician

"To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman, who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought, is indeed a most signal honour"

John G. D. Clark

"I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope"

Story Musgrave, Astronaut

"Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused"

Michael Arad, Architect

"I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer"

Yannick Noah, Athlete

"As we celebrate Black History Month, we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work"

Marty Meehan, Politician

"In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children"

Oliver North, Soldier

"It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... It's unbelievable"

Eydie Gorme, Musician

"Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country"

Dougray Scott, Actor

"While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan"

John Linder, Politician

"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history"

Iris Chang, Historian

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"The people who have really made history are the martyrs"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

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