Quotes About Inheritance

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything... for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts...'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

They were Amy and Dan Cahill's parents, people who had died in an accidental fire years ago. Or maybe not so accidental.

It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.

Mi-am folosit cât mai bine calit??ile, am profitat chiar de pe urma defectelor, dar nu È›in cu dinadinsul s? m? las moÈ™tenire cuiva.

Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

El mundo ha impreso en nuestras psiquis su quebranto y su dolor. Y no tiene sentido intentar aliviar ese dolor hasta que sanemos nuestro desubicado sentido de herencia. No somos hijos del mundo; somos hijos de Dios. No tenemos que permitir que el insumo errado de un mundo cansado nos afecte como lo hace.

When we remember our royal inheritance, men will become our true partners, our kings.

So much had never been explained to her. They were that kind of family. Things necessary to know were passed along brother to brother, sister to sister, and this sufficient for most purposes, despite inevitable error and sensationalism.

He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~

we all do live in the ruins of the lives of other generations

it is true that we all do live in the ruins of the lives of other generations, so there is a seeming continuity which is important because it deceives us.

Children inherent principles; they do not set them.