Quotes About Legacy

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

He was like a second father to me (of George Halas)

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

My father did advertising photography.

Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

I've got a lot to look forward to. I'm trying to be the best father I can, and that's a pretty important role. Some would say it's more important than stopping pucks.

My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National.

You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in the eye

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.