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Quotes About Bequest

He left me his violin.
~ Toni Morrison
My only inheritance.
~ Christopher Paolini
Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
~ Voltaire
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.
~ lapham lewis h ii
I'm not leaving something for you. I'm leaving something in you." I didn't like the way that sounded.
~ Charles Martin
And there's this twelve thousand dollars item for books. -That supposed to be twelve hundred, the twelve thousand is for paper. towels. Besides there is already that bequest for the library. -Did it say books in so many words? No. It's just a bequest for the library. -Use it for pegboard. You need pegboard in a library. Books you don't know what you're getting into.
~ William Gaddis
The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'
~ Nell Scovell
The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
Saying of the Prophet The Bequest I have nothing to leave you except my family.
~ Idries Shah
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
~ Samuel Butler
They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to Islam , their joint 1,300-page doorstopper, spent twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover alone. The fact that they remained practicing Muslims (albeit the liberal, wine-guzzling kind) put their message in high international demand.
~ Unknown
TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT To make a long story short I leave all my possessions to the Municipal Slaughterhouse to the Special Unit of the Police Department to Lucky Dog Lotto So now if you want you can shoot
~ Nicanor Parra