Quotes About Legacy

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.

What I learned from my father is to think big.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

I admire my father greatly.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

I look a lot like my father when he was my age.

It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.

My father was absolutely no good.

Working with Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give") and ... Charles Shyer ("Father of the Bride"), and I'm proud of "Reds," and I'm proud of my movies with Woody (Allen).

Without fathers you would have no civilization.