legacy Quotes

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

I went to all of Dad's football games. As I got older, I got involved. He taught me everything I know about playing it.

As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.