Quotes About Legacy

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.

I realized I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.