“Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.”
Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist
As quoted in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Great Quotes for All Occasions (2008) by Elaine Bernstein Partnow, p. 12
“A man's immortality can be found in his children.”
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Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, The American Promise (1965)
Context: This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: "All men are created equal" — "government by consent of the governed" — "give me liberty or give me death." Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. In their name Americans have fought and died for two centuries, and tonight around the world they stand there as guardians of our liberty, risking their lives. Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man's possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position. It really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others. It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, and provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being.
“So we remain, forever more,
Immortal and Found.”
Masiela Lusha (1985) Albanian actress, writer, author
from the poem, This Child Desires Spring http://www.masielalushafoundation.org/board.php
“The wiser head gives in! An immortal phrase. It founds the world dominion of stupidity.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Der Gescheitere gibt nach! Ein unsterbliches Wort. Es begründet die Weltherrschaft der Dummheit.
Aphorisms (1893), p. 6
William Ernest Hocking (1873–1966) American philosopher
Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), Ch. XVI : The Original Sources of the Knowledge of God, p. 237.
Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley (1744–1804) British judge and politician
Morck v. Abel (1802), 3 Bos. and Pull. 38.
“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse VI.10
Tirukkural
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Calcutta, 1985, Vol I. p. 11. Quoted from Goel, S. R. (1996). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Chapter 13 ISBN 9788185990354
