Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

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

Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

Americans look foward to their posterity rather than backward to their ancestors.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

People throw legacy and dynasty around a bit too much.

My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

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

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.

You can properly call him a son of anything you please.

I'm blessed with four great children and eight grandchildren.

I have children; I hope to be a grandmother one day.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.