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Quotes About Inheritance

You were born of a generation that promised to help remember.
~ Joy Harjo
From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Because we are linked by blood and blood is memory without language.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Peace is our inheritance from Jesus, but we have to choose to follow Him daily. Colossians 3:15 teaches us that peace is to be the "umpire" in our lives, settling every issue that needs a decision. To gain and maintain peace in our hearts, we may have to learn to say no to a few things.
~ Joyce Meyer
But the meek (in the end) shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace" (Ps. 37:11).
~ Joyce Meyer
make a quality decision that you are going to get your mind renewed and learn to choose your thoughts carefully. Make up your mind that you will not quit and give up until victory is complete and you have taken possession of your rightful inheritance.
~ Joyce Meyer
rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones). EPHESIANS 1:17,18
~ Joyce Meyer
Okay," Amy said, blowing out a breath. "Our grandmother Grace left a will that gave us a choice between a million dollars and a hunt to find thirty-nine clues, which, when we put them together, will make us the most powerful people in the world. So we chose the hunt. Along with various assorted horrible Cahill relatives, all of whom have tried to kill us at one time or another." Shep sighed. "If you don't want to tell me, I guess that's up to you.
~ Jude Watson
Katherine wouldn't lead all her descendants here for chervil, would she?
~ Jude Watson
For a man who's just inherited a small empire, Ian, you have a remarkably sour expression on your face. Would you care to join me for a drink and a few hands of cards, my lord?" An ironic smile twisted Ian's lips as he turned to acknowledge one of the few aristocrats he respected and regarded as a friend. "Certainly," he mocked. " Your Grace. " Jordan Townsende laughed. "It gets a little tedious, does it not?
~ Judith McNaught
Whitney, My Love is the story of Clayton Westmoreland, the Ninth Duke of Claymore. Until You features Stephen Westmoreland's
~ Judith McNaught
Nothing like having a miser in the family.
~ Judy Blume
You need not hesitate about asking largely; "it is your Father's pleasure to give you the kingdom," said Jesus.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life.
~ Wallace Stegner
marriage is about money and property and inheritance? Why else bother with it?
~ Walter Jon Williams
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
~ Walter Lippmann
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
~ Walter Savage Landor
She's her mother's daughter - full of courage, determination, and strength she doesn't even know she has.
~ Wanda E. Brunstetter
A rich person should leave his kids enough to do something, but not enough to do nothing.
~ Warren Buffett
Blood is thicker than ink.
~ Warren H. Carroll
My sons weren't sure what I was getting at. It doesn't matter anyway, because it won't be an option for them. They don't have a Tom Petty. They're borrowing mine.
~ Warren Zanes
I wish to impress these matters upon you, because you are the eldest of your father's family. The oldest son should consider himself the second father of the family.
~ Washington Irving
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. (Actually appearing as "a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children" in _The Unforeseen Wilderness: An Essay on Kentucky's Red River Gorge_, published 1971)
~ Wendell Berry
We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish "me, me, me" culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that television was supposed to bring is less a village than a playground... Little attempt is made to pass on our cultural inheritance, and our moral and religious traditions are neglected except in the shallow "family values" arguments.
~ Wes Jackson