Quotes About Inheritance

Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.

I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in my DNA.

Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.

The greatest thing in the world is not in dying rich but leaving the richness behind for the world to treasure.

You can tell a lot about a person's priorities in life by reading their will.

Poverty is a curse. Don't call it. It takes few generations to come out from the curse of poverty.

We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation.

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

my father] usually concealed his rages with unconvincing politeness to contain his sparse energy, an instinct I may have inherited

The Bible is filled with powerful statements about who we are in Christ and what belongs to us as believers.

History is a story we learn, add on our own chapter, and then pass to the next generation.

Frequently, I hear people say, "The reason we can't go in is the giants. We must first take them down." I think perhaps a major reason we are not going in to possess the land is that we are more interested in giants than we are desperate to taste the honey of our inheritance.

the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.

It doesn't take a new heart to want the psychological relief of forgiveness, or the removal of God's wrath, or the inheritance of God's world. All these things are understandable without any spiritual change. You don't need to be born again to want these things. The devils want them.

The bloodline of Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race.

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God." (Hebrews 11:8-10)

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

MZ twins are as closely related to their nieces and nephews as they are to their own children.

Make no mistake. The genes we're born with carry memory. They carry knowledge we've never learned, talents we've never studied, even fear of things that have never frightened us. but someone, in some time out of mind, had these memories. Yes, you might say that all of us are haunted. You might very well say that.?

And somehow I became the reluctant inheritor of his hatred for the world that had coldly knocked him down without even glancing back.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally!

When the "sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species.