Dylan Thomas Quotes

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

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.

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

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

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

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

I don't feel I owe anyone anything.

People throw legacy and dynasty around a bit too much.

No god save self, that is the way to live.

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

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

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

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

When I die there is nobody to take my place.