Contributed Quotes

• He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

  

  Bing Crosby
  • Damn
  • Contributed

• All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Ideas
  • Labor
  • Realirealize

• The music had so many different styles because we all contributed everything we knew.

  

  Irmin Schmidt Can
  • Music
  • Styles
  • Contributed

• At first I didn’t give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didn’t take him like they did to Ali. I think people won’t fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Years
  • Sport
  • Contributed

• Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Criticism
  • Jazz
  • Essences

• I think every guy contributed in some way. It shows our toughness, our will to play no matter what happens early on.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Play
  • Toughness
  • Contributed

• The men placed willow wands every 50 feet or so to mark their route—as I did in 1992, but as no one bothered to in 1986 or 2008, an oversight that contributed to both tragedies.

  

  Ed Viesturs
  • Tragedies
  • Contributed
  • Willow

• You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed.

  

  Jorge Posada
  • Game
  • Day
  • Contributed

• Our songs, we construct them and deconstruct them so much, we kind of forget exactly what we contributed to them. They just start in a certain place, and then, all of a sudden, they finish, and OK, wow, that just happened.

  

  Isom Innis
  • Forget
  • Songs
  • Contributed

• It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

  

  George William Foote
  • Women
  • Bible
  • Contributed

• Everyone from Canada and from here contributed to the Sausage Party - it truly is, like, every market.

  

  Evan Goldberg
  • Canada
  • Sausage
  • Contributed

• It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Live
  • Fund
  • Contributed