Quotes About Legacy

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

I have become my own father.

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

My father was a lawyer.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.

My father was a bullfighter.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.