Quotes About Legacy

Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.

Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.

What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.

Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in

A life is not a waste of time

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

All true patriots will meet in heaven.