Quotes About Inheritance

I'm John the Fourth, so I think there's a lot of things in life that have been truly handed to me by the hard work and the pain of others.

My grandmother passed away from diabetes. And my father died from heart disease as a result of diabetes. They were in their early 60s.

All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will.

My father was in the coal and heating business, and he wanted me to take over his business, and I resented every moment of it. So I would never force my kids to do what I do.

History is a heavy thing everywhere.

I don't know where I got the height from; dad was only five-foot-seven and my brother's five-foot eight.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a world-famous leader.

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

The way I make something out of nothing, I got that from my mama. That's 100% her.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Mom was 6-4, 235 herself.

My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.

You can take the girl out of Beverly Hills, but you can't take the Beverly Hills out of the girl.

God is God to us not that we may say he is, but that we may know him; and when we know him, then we are with him, at home, at the heart of the universe, the heirs of all things.

The righteousness that makes a man visit the sins of a father upon his children, is the righteousness of a devil, not the righteousness of God. When God visits the sins of a father on his children, it is to deliver the child from his own sins through yielding to inherited temptation.

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors ... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

You were the dead; theirs was the future.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are non-existent.

A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors.

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living.