Quotes About Legacy

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.

A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.

When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground. we never forget them.

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.