Quotes About Legacy

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'

Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel.

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.

My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.

My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

I am truly my mother's son.

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.