Quotes about Legacy
All I am I owe to my mother.
- George Washington
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
- Laurence Sterne
And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.
- Nicole Kidman
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
- Charles Dickens
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.
- Peter Drucker
My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
- Maya Angelou
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
- George Washington
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.
- Wendell Berry
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
- Mother Teresa
People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.
- John Maxwell