Eartha Kitt Quotes

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

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

You can't run from your roots.

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.

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

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

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

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.

You can properly call him a son of anything you please.

Being my father's son is a kind of privilege.

Did I really want to teach my children that a list of successes is the most valuable legacy to leave behind? I absolutely did not.

You can't really run from your roots.

I didn't even know I had a legacy.

My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy.

One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

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

On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of Terrence Jaxon, signatory of the One Law; great-great-nephew of the one known as Auntie, Last of the First; Peter of Souls, the Man of Days and the One Who Stood-took his position on the catwalk above Main Gate, waiting to kill his brother.

If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.