Quotes About Legacy

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

You are — truly your father's son, Harry. . . .

In the 'looks of disappointment' department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.