Quotes About Inheritance

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

My grandmother used to really love fashion, and she always had Chanel No. 5 on her dressing table, and Chanel bags. That's when I really started falling in love with the brand and fashion in general.

My grandmother was very funny. It skipped a generation.

I have goals, I have my purpose. I want to build upon what my grandpa and my dad and my stepdad did in the past.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.

It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

The Romanoffs are like the other side of 'The Great Gatsby.' 'Gatsby' is about the people who don't have the history but who want it. And 'The Romanoffs' is about the people who have it and don't know what to do with it.

I want my kids, my grandkids to have a great life.

Greek blood courses through me.

When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.

I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.

Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to pass from father to son.

My grandfather was a direct descendent of Guru Nanak, which my father also carried forth.

Family habits die hard.

There's been a ham in every generation of our family.

The Hamilton name will live on way beyond me now, which I'm very happy to be a part of.

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.