Quotes About Legacy

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

I owe my father everything.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.