Quotes About Legacy

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.

Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

All I am I owe to my mother.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.