Quotes About Inheritance

He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future--

consumption that had accounted for his father, his elder brother and his bastard son, and which was soon to carry off his legitimate son, King Edward VI.

God planted in men a strong desire also of propagating their kind, and continuing themselves in their posterity; and this gives children a title to share in the property of their parents, and a right to inherit their possessions.

distinction between pirates and lawful princes; he that has force is without any more ado to be obeyed, and crowns and sceptres would become the inheritance only of violence and rapine.

nay, a right not only to a bare subsistence, but to the conveniencies and comforts of life, as far as the conditions of their parents can afford it.

If kings, who are not heirs to Adam, have no right to sovereignty, we are all free

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

Zack, who has a penchant for arcane knowledge, informs Ava that a family of a boy followed by a girl is known as the king's choice. There is the son to carry on the family name, and the daughter to marry off and create a dynasty.

quickly. "And I'll find something. I'm not completely penniless." Maia swallows. "Gramps told me I could move

None of you children seem to have inherited my love of gardening (unless you count Nick, and the pot plants in the attic)

the way Adrienne's mother had taught her eighty-two years earlier.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

But inheritance doesn't come from the past. Inheritance is the place we are given in the present in a world structured to care for the existence of some and not of others.

Danilaw's underlying genetic users meant his own emotional balance could stray from perfection and his inherited neurochemistry meant that his rightminding fell in need of more frequent-than-usual maintenance. Not enough to cause a social disadvantage, or free him from Obligations-but enough to make him wish sometimes it might.

Is that why they're squabbling over her? They're trying to marry an heir to the throne? I'm sorry, Tristen, but that's like some medieval play.

Beloved," he said. "Claim me, and I will do your will. I am yours by right, through the line of your foremothers and forefathers. Only let me own you. Perceval. My darling.

He looked so terribly young, a slender boy with a boy's narrow shoulders and his father's, green, green eyes.

Whatever this child had from Strifbjorn…he was smarter than Strifbjorn had ever shown himself.

It was in me, this terrible history. It was part of me, and I could not get it out.

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

Genes load the gun, and environment pulls the trigger.

Maybe killing comes naturally to people, an instinct nobody likes to admit, a survival reflex inherited from our Neanderthal cousins. So maybe it's the other stuff, the good manners that supposedly make us human, that are the real aberrations.

The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.