Quotes About Inheritance

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory.

Sometimes our parents were dazzled by the sense of possibility they'd bestowed upon us. Other times, they were aghast to recognize their own entitlement, staring back at them magnified in the mirror of their offspring

Há, enfim, pura oligarquia se o Senado ou alguma outra Assembleia elege seus membros, se o filho sucede ao pai e se esta associação é senhora das leis.

Like every human being, Alvin was in some measure a machine, his actions predetermined by his inheritance. That did not alter his need for understanding and sympathy, nor did it render him immune to loneliness or frustration. To his own people, he was so unaccountable a creature that they sometimes forgot that he still shared their emotions.

And isn't it funny, she thought, that it takes two generations to kill off a man? … First him, and then his memory. …

My grandfather was an architect, and his father, and his father; one of them built houses only for millionaires in California, and that was where the family wealth came from, and one of them was certain that houses could be made to stand on the sand dunes of San Francisco, and that was where the family wealth went.

Blackwoods had always lived in our house, and kept their things in order; as soon as a new Blackwood wife moved in, a place was found for her belongings, and so our house was built up with layers of Blackwood property weighting it, and keeping it steady against the world.

Lei, signore disse l'uomo, rivolgendosi a Essex. Lei fa penitenza?. Tutti i giorni rispose Essex. Pecca? Quando posso disse virilmente Essex. Metallo? Come, scusi? Qual è la sua posizione sul metallo? Si concede allacciature di metallo per i vestiti? Carne? Afflizioni fisiche?. Ho ereditato tutto questo disse Essex, ispirato.

Like my grandma, may she rest in peace, used to say: "The best check is ready cash.

we do not inherit the world from our parents; we borrow it from our children.

Podían los muchachos ser culpados por los pecados de sus progenitores? Ciertamente no eran ellos los responsables

If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.

Destronada pelo advento da propriedade privada, é a ela que o destino da mulher permanece ligado durante os séculos: em grande parte, a sua história confunde-se com a história da herança.

Now, said Sir Ector to Arthur, I understand ye must be king of this land. Wherefore I, said Arthur, and for what cause? Sir, said Ector, for God will have it so; for there should never man have drawn out this sword, but he that shall be rightwise king of this land

By my faith,' said Wamba, 'it would seem the Templars love the Jews' inheritance better than they do their company.

O genera?ie nu r?scump?r? pe cea dinaintea ei

Some people are born into roles. Others have roles thrust upon them.

It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.

I owe more to the dead, with whom I will spend a much longer time, than I will ever owe to the living.

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine.

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.