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Quotes About Legacy

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
~ Horace
I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.
~ Bruce Willis
The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
~ Chief Seattle
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Parkour does not have to be liked or disliked! Parkour is here and it will stay here forever! Because it was born from a pure heart and nourished from all the love that a son can give to his father!
~ David Belle
He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
~ Nicolas Bentley
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
~ Charles Kettering
I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.
~ Enrique Iglesias
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
~ Frank A. Clark
Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.
~ Phil Robertson
Every one of my father's songs is a lesson.
~ Damian Marley
My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
~ John E. Walker
I am very proud of my father and what he's accomplished. It is amazing.
~ Ivanka Trump
I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.
~ Tony Parker
I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.
~ Alberto Gonzales
What do I owe my father? Everything!
~ Henry Van Dyke
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
~ Eminem
My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
~ Lord Mountbatten
The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
~ Timothy J. Russert
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.
~ Jodi Picoult
Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don't do this well, no other thing I do really matters.
~ Michael Josephson
My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.
~ James Boswell
It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
~ Barack Obama
Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.
~ Donald Hall