Quotes about Legacy

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

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

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

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.

If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.

In every generation, the world is changed by a few people, who stand for something, do not fear unpopularity and dare to make a difference.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.