Jaime Harrison Quotes

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

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

A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

Canada is our inheritance from our parents and our legacy to our children.

I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

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.

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

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.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

All I think about is my son, my family, and my future family.

My most important legacy is being a good father to my two children.

I have a son and two daughters, and I care equally about all three of them, and I want the world to be a better place for all of them.

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.