Quotes About Legacy

The child is the father of man.

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

When I was a boy I was my father.

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.

I've never read one book about my father.