Quotes About Legacy

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

I get a lot of my inspiration from my family, but I never got to meet my dad's dad.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.