Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

I'm very much into legacies.

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

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

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

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

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.

It's good to know where you've come from.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move.

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

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

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

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

You can't run from your roots.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

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

I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!'

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

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their 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.