Deborah Sampson Quotes

Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures.... Only man stands with his children from first to last, from birth to death, and to the grave.

Americans look foward to their posterity rather than backward to their ancestors.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

I have wonderful children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

And I'm so grateful to have that family name and continue my family's legacy, but I'm also very excited to create my own.

I love the whole idea of family and what gets left behind when you are gone. I'm very proud of my children; I was one of seven.

People throw legacy and dynasty around a bit too much.

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

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

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.