Spencer W. Kimball Quotes

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

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.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

My family means different things to different folks. I think, for most people, they have very fond memories and believe my family made important contributions to the country.

I feel like now my kids can run around and say, 'My mom was the Rock's daughter.' I don't have kids yet, but my future children - I just feel like it's the coolest thing ever.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.

I'm very much into legacies.

I love the whole idea of family and what gets left behind when you are gone. I'm very proud of my children; I was one of seven.

For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.

I definitely come from a line of strong women. It's not only like my mother and my grandmother, but my aunties too.

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.

There's been a ham in every generation of our family.

Tribal designs are a part of my heritage. It boils down to the influences from my father, Viv Richards' side.

Chris didn't only leave a legacy of work. He left a legacy of love.

Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver.

Everything I am is because of my grandmother.

I'm the son of a surgeon and the grandson of a surgeon.

Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.