Quotes About Legacy

My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

I'd like to thank Mom and Dad, just for the genetics.

I hated my mom for not letting me play football as a kid. So when I have kids someday, I guarantee they'll never meet their grandmother.

And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

Everything I am is because of my mom.

A fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

I am so proud and grateful to be my mom's daughter.

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled." "Carter Kane, Chapter 41

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

My mom told me when I was younger that when you jack off all of your dead relatives are watching. But then I figured who were they going to tell.

Both my mom and my grandma were really big influences on me not only by being strong and teaching me to be strong but also owning their salt as well.

I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.