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I do not innovate. I transmit.

I have goals, I have my purpose. I want to build upon what my grandpa and my dad and my stepdad did in the past.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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

When I knew I was pregnant four years ago with a boy, a friend suggested I call him Cary, but I initially resisted. There was only one Cary Grant. But a week before he was due, I started thinking it would be wonderful to pass the name on to him. And anyway, my father wasn't Cary to me. He was Dad.

I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.

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

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

I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.

All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.

As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.

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

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.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

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

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

I do want to be a mother. I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.

'Frances' is a longtime family name on my dad's side. My grandfather, father, brother, and my daughter's name is Frances.

I'm very much into legacies.