Quotes About Legacy

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

She was a genius, my mother.

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.

My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

My mother was an activist so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness, ' as he would call it.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

All men die, but not all men really live.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.