Wernher von Braun Quotes

As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.

A wife is man's conscience, his children perpetuate his memory, wealth enables him to live, arms are needed to extirpate the tyrants.

I want my kids, my grandkids to have a great life.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.

I want to take care of my family for generations. I want to have my head turned into a bust in the Hall of Fame.

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education.

I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

Memories are the only real gifts we can leave our children.

Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.

Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.