Quotes About Legacy

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

A bad father has never a good son

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Writers will happen in the best of families

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family

Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

How can we teach family values when its more than obvious by the legacy left behind families stopped valueing it self.

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Be great, make the best life for your family!

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.