Quotes About Legacy

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

I like to call myself as son of famous father and father of famous son.

When I look in my father's eyes, man, I know that I made him proud. As a son, with a father that loves him and believes in him so much, that's the world. It really is.

I didn't want my son to see the same things I had seen growing up or have to go through the same things I went through.

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. There's 'The War Against The Chtorr,' which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.

The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.

The benefit a father can confer on his son is to make him fit to occupy the front rank in the assembly of the learned.

I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.

I'm Bob's son. He's my inspiration. What can I give back to the community?

Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.

I want to have an impact on my son.

I'm done doing music so I can go kick it with my son.

I always think about when I was a kid, and I didn't have anything, and now I get to see my son live a good life.

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

When I look at old pictures, I see my son Luciano, not me. Luciano looks identical. That's what's extraordinary, the power of a gene pool.

My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

It's always a dream come true to do music with your pops. And your son.

My son is becoming me - just a silly, silly prankster guy.

My grandfather is a musician, my son is a musician and a singer. My mother played the piano too.

I've been friends with Jaco Pastorius's son since 1996 - Johnny Pastorius, the eldest son. And I remember when I first met him, I said, 'Some day, you've gotta make a film about your father,' because his influence is so broad.