Margherita Missoni Quotes

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

I love wearing things that come with a story.

I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me.

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

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

I have been raised to value my family.

I used to watch my Cuban mother getting ready singing 'Dos Gardenias,' so to me fashion has always been fun.

I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.

I'd just like to carry on in Dad's footsteps. I think that Dad's spirit and passion lives in every single one of us.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

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

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

I'm trying to carry on my dad's legacy, and it is tough.

I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition.

Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think, since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.

I think so much of your energy when you're growing up is about becoming independent of your parents. And the older you get, the more you realise you're actually so much part and parcel of the same kind of material.

'Frances' is a longtime family name on my dad's side. My grandfather, father, brother, and my daughter's name is Frances.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

The matriarchs of my family loved to bake, and the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Baking became something I did every day; it became a time where my creative and nurturing side took stage.