Tacitus Quotes

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

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

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?

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

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.

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

I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.

I wonder what she [his grandmother Queen Victoria] would have thought of a Labor Government?

People will not look forward to posterity who are not anxious to look backward to their ancestry

Never did I charge into battle with the hope of returning safe This is the way of my ancestors The roots beget the stems

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

Being African American and Jewish, I have plenty of ancestors and family members that I can look to for strength and, more importantly, for a grateful outlook on life.

I think my grandmother was one of my biggest influences.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

I'm very much into legacies.

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

My son was named after my father, whose name was Ranbir Raj Kapoor.

My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of them. They are fastened up inside me, and now and again, they have to come out.

The thing that I hate the most is when people have prejudice - when they see me as the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini and not as Alessandra. That, really, I don't like. I didn't know my grandfather. I am me.

Carrying on the Blanchard name is a huge honor for me because my grandfather, my father and my step-father - they've all put a lot into their legacy and for me to carry that on, it's a lot of weight on my shoulders.