Jeff Lemire Quotes

My father was just a hell of a guy. He had a real strong sense of honor, and he tried to pass that on to me. I like to think that I embrace that.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

The mantle of the pioneers has fallen on our shoulders.

Whatever I'm going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy.

I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

If you say that you're a king, queen, god or goddess and you recognize that you're from ancestral greatness, you have to start living up to that. It's really just that simple.

Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.

My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.

Sacrifice. I'd never been in a position where I was number one on the call sheet, and everything was in my lap. I worked 16 hour days, and I was just not the lead of any film, it was a film about Jesse Owens, one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century. It was a whole new type of responsibility. It was a big weight, and I wanted to do him justice, especially in reviving him after 80 years.

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'

This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

Prongs rode again last night... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?