Quotes About Legacy

At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.