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Quotes About Legacy

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.
~ Christopher Walken
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
~ George Herbert
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
~ Malcolm X
Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
~ Thomas A. Edison
My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.
~ Michael Jackson
I am in competition only with my father and my uncle (Mukesh Bhatt) because they taught me what I know today. I only believe in making movies with integrity.
~ Pooja Bhatt
Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.
~ Homer
I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.
~ Drake
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Father of fathers, make me one, A fit example for a son.
~ Douglas Malloch
William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
I was raised to work for my father when I was four.
~ Jared Kushner
But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
~ Buffalo Bill
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
~ Michael Beschloss
A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
~ Billy Wilder
My father was a saint. I'm not.
~ Indira Gandhi
Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job or not.
~ Dennis Rainey
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.
~ Mukesh Ambani
When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'
~ Steve Blank
You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.
~ Michael Reagan
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.
~ Grantland Rice
When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.
~ Peter Fonda
When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.
~ Nachman of Breslov