Quotes About Legacy

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

When a mother dies, a daughter's mourning never completely ends.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

All that I am my mother made me.

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.