Dick Van Dyke Quotes

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

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

I have goals, I have my purpose. I want to build upon what my grandpa and my dad and my stepdad did in the past.

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

It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.

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

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

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

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

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

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

My son was named after my father, whose name was Ranbir Raj Kapoor.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

There's been a ham in every generation of our family.

I'm very proud of my heritage and the blood that runs through my veins. I take a lot of strength from that.

I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.