Quotes About Legacy

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help and destroy Colombia, both are true.

It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

My father was a manual worker.

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.