Quotes About Inheritance

He who has a sword, and knows how to use it, but keeps it sheathed shall inherit the earth.

that the attentive son can restore the vision of his father.

You don't understand how what you want—and, therefore, what you see—is conditioned by the immense, abysmal, profound past. You simply don't understand how every neural circuit through which you peer at the world has been shaped (and painfully) by the ethical aims of millions of years of human ancestors and all of the life that was lived for the billions of years before that.

Pelópidas's father, a collateral descendant, inherited only the name and the aristocratic habit of not working.

A glória dos netos nada tem a ganhar com a ruína dos avós.

La desgracia tiene hijos aunque ella no tiene madre

Man understood in the end what man is. He renounces the analysis of God, penetrating the impalpable, in which he has not seen, to give laws to the phantasms of his brain. Man understands that his inheritance is the greater world whose dominion is within his grasp. Tired of useless and presumptuous labor he bows his head and looks about him, and now he sees how our poets are born. Little by little nature's muses open their treasures and start to smile upon us, and lead us far from such labors.

Huwag mong kalimutan na kahit pamana sa sangkatauhan ang karunungan, walang nagtatamo nito kundi ang may puso.

Never forget that if wisdom is the patrimony of mankind, only those of great heart will inherit it,

Det er riktig at bestefaren din måtte forlate Spania, hadde greven av Barcelona sagt. - Men han forble konge til han døde. I en tone som gjorde inntrykk på gutten hadde han lagt til: - For, ser du, Juanito, en konge bør aldri abdisere. Det har han ingen rett til.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

contredisez sans cesse cet esprit de nouveauté et de changement, jusque dans les petites choses; laissez pendre sur vos murs les tapisseries enfumées de vos aïeux; chargez vos tables de leur pesante argenterie. Vous dites: 'Mon père est mort dans cette maison, il faut que je la vende !' Anathème sur ce sophisme de l'insensibilité ! dites au contraire : 'Il y est mort, je ne puis plus la vendre'.

You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter, in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin.

We three alone have the speed, skill and power to do what must be done', said Grimalkin. 'You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter — in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin.

The kid scared her sometimes, he was so smart. She wondered where he inherited it. Not from her gene pool, that was for sure. Richard, her first husband and Gabe's father, was smart enough but no genius. She also wondered from time to time whether being so precocious made him an outcast at his private boys' school. It couldn't be easy.

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.

There are a variety of traits that set humans apart from our closest primate relatives. The "big four" are language, rationality, culture, and morality (or in more precise terms, "syntacticized language," "domain-general intelligence," "cumulative cultural inheritance," and "ultrasociality").

Insanity runs in my family, it practically gallops

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Once a genetic component has been established, the search for the genes involved can begin. This is a time-consuming and complex process that has recently been greatly facilitated by the information obtained by the Human Genome Project.51

Heritability in psychiatric disorders typically involves complex inheritance patterns controlled by multiple genes that interact with environmental factors to produce their results.

Our grandfathers didn't leave us much strength, not enough strength to live with, but just about enough to die a meaningless death. Ach!