Anne Cassidy Quotes

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

We live inside our parents' backstory.

No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin.

I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

I'm proud of my hands; they look like my grandma's.

I am truly my mother's son.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.

There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.

I am a product of my father's work.

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.

My sister had been praying for me since I was born: my sister, Stephanie, my namesake. That's what she is to me; my namesake - Stephanie, Stephon. Stephanie - that's my daughter's name. I kept it in the family.

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects...It affects not only the two people involved, but also their families and particularly their children and their children's children down through the many generations

I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us and as our posterity reads of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted.

Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

See the cat? See the cradle?

I come from a long line of generations!

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.