Quotes About Inheritance

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

The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.

that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.

el sol que brilla ahora es el mismo que brillaba cuando nació tu padre y el mismo que brillará cuando fallezca el último de tus nietos.

You were indeed fortunate that Algamish made of you an heir.

Mi hijo, es mi deseo que heredes todo lo mío. Sin embargo, primero tienes que comprobar que eres capaz de administrarlo sabiamente. Por ese motivo, quiero que salgas al mundo y muestres tu habilidad para adquirir el oro, así como para hacerte respetar entre los hombres.

KIRBY: A man can't give up his business. GRANDPA: Why not? You've got all the money you need. You can't take it with you.

I took my time to arrive, entering the world only after my grandmother Dorothy Walker Bush administered a healthy dose of castor oil to Mother. (It was my first taste of the oil business.)

George Washington famously warned against ... 'ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear

Have you any brothers? demanded Mr. Beaumaris. No, said Mr. Scunthorpe, blinking at him. Only child. You relieve my mind. Offer my congratulations to your parents!

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.' Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested in her brother,' objected the Captain.

Dear Papa, it seemed, had not left his family in affluent circumstances; but he had certainly endowed them with good looks, a commodity in which they had been bred from earliest youth to trade to the best advantage.

means that Charis won't be a penniless bride.' 'Ah!

grandson characteristically. He found

Damn this curst family nose!' said Ludovic. 'It'll ruin me yet.' 'That's what I'm thinking,' agreed Bundy.

The Course states that there are only two emotions: love and fear. The first is our natural inheritance, and the other our mind manufactures.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before

We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.

My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!