Billy Crystal Quotes

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

We all leave unfinished work; we cannot complete it; those who come after us take it up and conform it to their will

I have to have another child. I have to bring someone into this world that will be here for Dashiell.

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

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Tell me, who doesn't want to have a family to extend himself/herself?

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

Canada is our inheritance from our parents and our legacy to our children.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

Those who come after us will... fill up the canvas we begin.

I think it would have been nice to have a family; it would be nice to have grandchildren.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

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

One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.