J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

This island was the dominion of my father and should descend to none other than myself. Foreigners must go.

My father has a movement that started before us. As his children, we are just the stewards to build on his foundation.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name.

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

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'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.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

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

Whoever of my fortunate sons shall chance to rule my empire?

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.

It doesn't bother me whether I am or I'm not compared to my dad. I do not feel any pressure at all from being his son.

Being my father's son is a kind of privilege.

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 more or less said I was going to try to make an existence off my daddy's royalties or I'm going to make it on my own. Daddy is a legend and he don't need me to keep him alive.

I repeat for the umpteenth time, without making apologies: My children have had more than their fair share of presidency under their father. There cannot be any hereditary transfer of power.

I have never lived off my family name.

I took my dad's name to carry on his legacy because acting feels like something I'm meant to do. I want to try everything.