Quotes About Legacy

Your daughter is your child for life.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.

Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us.

And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

I was given all of my dad's guitars when he passed, and they were being stored at the house. My mother decided they were hers again, and she took them all back, and now they're going up for auction.

The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.

Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.

My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot of talent, she painted extremely well. She was quite a strong factor in my life.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.

All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.