Quotes About Inheritance

There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

By the grace of God, I'm the only person in my family with any musical ability.

My mother has fabulous skin which she gracefully passed on to me.

I'm at least smart enough to know I could never fill Billy Graham's shoes, but I'm grateful he gave me an opportunity to help him finish his race on earth well and to continue his life's work.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

I love to give money away. I don't know if it makes my children and grandchildren all that happy.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through.

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.

I have grandchildren who are going to need every cent I make.

My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me.

My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It's just in my blood.

My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.

'Frances' is a longtime family name on my dad's side. My grandfather, father, brother, and my daughter's name is Frances.

Curtis Axel has more talent than his grandfather and his father.

My grandfather couldn't stand either one of my parents.

You know, when my grandfather died, we were told that his estate was worth about $30 million. And it turns out it was closer to a billion. So that's hardly a rounding error.

I follow the Hindutva of my father and grandfather.

I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.