Quotes About Legacy

If $85 million is not enough to take care of my family and other generations of my family, then you're stupid.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

They hold a grudge like it was their family treasure.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.

I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

Girls, I need to tell you some things about our family," Sabrina said. "Have you ever heard of the Brothers Grimm?

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier, he crushed it.

There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.