Quotes About Legacy

He who is not proud of his own blood is not worthy of it.

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.