Mario Puzo Quotes

Children are poor men's riches.

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

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.

Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

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

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

The right amount of money to leave children is enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing

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

A wife is man's conscience, his children perpetuate his memory, wealth enables him to live, arms are needed to extirpate the tyrants.

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

I have wonderful children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

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

Our children are Grammers and it's easier to keep the Grammer last name because of them.

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

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.