Leo Sayer Quotes

I get my light eyes from my mother.

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

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

I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

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.

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

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

The smartest thing I've done for my kids is writing a song about a holiday. Every year after that, even after I'm gone, they'll get a small check from the play it gets around the Fourth.

My mother has the same kind of an arm, even today at 74. She could throw a ball from second base to home plate with something on it. I got my arm from my mother.

The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.

I'm very much into legacies.

I don't think there's any better present than something passed down from your mama, no matter what it is.

The only thing I got of my granddaddy's is a necktie.

If there's a gene, I got it from my ma. Her writing has this effortless quality.

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy

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.

Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.