Brian Mulroney Quotes

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

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

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

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Members of the rising new generation! The future is yours. The republic has been founded by us. It is up to you to guard and exalt it.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity.

For those things which were done either by our fathers or ancestors, and in which we ourselves had no share, I can scarcely call our own.

Each one of us is a custodian of India's well-being and of the legacy that we will pass on to coming generations.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

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

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

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.

When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Our children's children will hear a good story.