Quotes About Legacy

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.

Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

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

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

My dad being not the greatest dad in the world has made me a better parent.

Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good.

I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

I want to be a better parent than I had. Even though my mom was absolutely amazing. Her and I are still best friends to this day. I think that the next generation should always be better and better.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That's what parenting is: You're not there for yourself; you're there for your offspring and everyone else around you.

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

My parents have left a legacy in our family of service to others.

When my kids ask me, 'What did you do when you were 18?' I will tell them I was already at Paris Saint-Germain, that I was already a star and had to stay at home. I'll have my stories about home.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.