Quotes About Legacy

My mother was a very wise and strong person.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

We all carry our mothers inside us.

My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

The one who rules like the mother lasts long.

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.