Quotes About Inheritance

Belief isn't required. Finch told me my father scoffed at it all, and he's just as dead as the other dukes." "So

In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.

Quanto più sapremo guardare al 'classico' non come una morta eredità che ci appartiene senza nostro merito, ma come qualcosa di profondamente sorprendente ed estraneo, da riconquistare ogni giorno, come un potente stimolo ad intendere il 'diverso', tanto più da dirci esso avrà nel futuro.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

this is what we hope for, the objective reality of our future inheritance, not the feeling of hope or expectation in our hearts. So

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Why should the generations overlap one another at all?  Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty thousand pounds each wrapped round us in Bank of England notes, and wake up, as the sphex wasp does, to find that its papa and mamma have not only left ample provision at its elbow, but have been eaten by sparrows some weeks before it began to live consciously on its own account? About

At other times when not quite well he would have them in for the fun of shaking his will at them. He would in his imagination cut them all out one after another and leave his money to found almshouses, till at last he was obliged to put them back, so that he might have the pleasure of cutting them out again the next time he was in a passion.

certain kind of good fortune generally attends self-made men to the last. It is their children of the first, or first and second, generation who are in greater danger, for the race can no more repeat its most successful performances suddenly and without its ebbings and flowings of success than the individual can do so, and the more brilliant the success in any one generation, the greater as a general rule the subsequent exhaustion until time has been allowed for recovery.

It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

I got the part in the film and quickly learned how unimportant I was. It was shot in a rather grand house in Hampstead. You could tell the owners were rich. The place was decorated with that disregard for either fashion or comfort which only the British who inherit wealth seem to manage.

Monica experienced a vague discomfort at the idea that both her late grandfather and the Almighty Father were inside her mother's swimwear.

Finally, you can keep the money in the corporation and wait until you die. Obviously, this isn't my favorite technique. However, upon death, your heirs get a step up in basis for the corporate stock and can liquidate the corporation and receive the proceeds tax free.

Funny how we talk about our roots when our people have been here for generations." "Interesting, too," Anna said, "how we're not really divided according to our nationalities, but by how much or how little money we have. Most of the differences are acquired, they depend on what money can buy you.

A father lives after death in his son.

We shall give, says father.

Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

Story is the primary way we impart what really matters to the next generation.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.