Regina Brett Quotes

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

I love the idea that someone I like would have a piece of mine in their house and have a relationship with it.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. It's not going to be, 'It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl,' but really and truly what you're going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.

I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

Oh yeah; I love when I'm writing something that makes me cry - that's so cool. If it got me to do that, it's going to get someone else to do that.

I'm going to imprint myself on everything in this world.

That's something I always say is good to do in life, is to leave our mark in this lifetime.

People are going to forget that I won a Super Bowl, but they're never going to forget the kind of impact you had on them personally.

I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.

I don't want to be forgotten or not have helped as many people as I can before I pass.

There have been many great newspapermen, but to my mind, only two have achieved immortality: Pulitzer for his endowment and William Randolph Hearst for his castle.

I will leave an impression.

Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

You're a car, but most of all, what you are, what you've become, is a mate. And that's what makes a car special. That's what makes a car great. You start to think of it as a person. You start to love it.

You're here, and the only dance I want is this one.

Jesus healed people one at a time because God cares about individual people.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life. I mean, we're so different [in the cast], some of us. Miles apart. [But] when I see anyone from those days, I tap into that instant love for them.

And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.