Scott Stapp Quotes

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.

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

Our children's children will hear a good story.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

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

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

I want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now.

I want to leave something behind. A blueprint. A work ethic. Something that my great-grandkids and their kids and their kids can see: This is where it started. Lineage. Intergenerational wealth. Things that are here forever. All that.

I just want to do some movies that my children and my grandchildren would be proud of. That's my yardstick.

I'm very much into legacies.

I really feel that I've carried on my mother's legacy.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.

I inherited my 1960s copy of 'French Provincial Cooking' by Elizabeth David from my mother Gabrielle, who in turn inherited it from her mother Frances. It was my bible when I first moved to Paris aged 26.

I think about my daughter when I'm doing stuff, and I want to see it through her eyes, and I want her to be proud of me, for what I do.

I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.

I love the whole idea of family and what gets left behind when you are gone. I'm very proud of my children; I was one of seven.

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.

I want to build a legacy.

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

My legacy is secure.

My dad died with a full head of hair, so I have that legacy.

When I'm 100 years old, if I make it that long, when I die, probably the first tag line will be John McCain's daughter, and I'm so proud of him and proud of my family's legacy and our life, so I don't have a problem with it.

My legacy is so, so important to me.