Quotes About Inheritance

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children" (Prov. 13:22 NKJV). I

I'll be seventy years old soon. Well, Nahum, if you asked me whether I shall die and be buried in a Jewish State I would tell you Yes; in ten years, fifteen years, I believe there will still be a Jewish State. But ask me whether my son Amos, who will be fifty at the end of this year, has a chance of dying and being buried in a Jewish State, and I would answer: fifty-fifty.

Over the years Sumner amended his trust more than forty times to add and remove numerous beneficiaries, many of them women he dated. Dauman, who as a cotrustee of Sumner's trust was aware of many of the gifts, acknowledged that "several" women received over $20 million each, "a lot" of women received over $10 million, and "many, many" women received over $1 million.

Selling such a large stake flew in the face of everything she knew about her father. He loved content.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe.

the meek, who suffer spoliation rather than jeopardize their souls in contention, shall inherit the earth; those that hunger and thirst for the truth shall be fed in rich abundance;

IBM had its origins in Jacquard's endeavours in Revolutionary France. And indeed IBM is, indeed, a direct descendant of the work that went on in Jacquard's workshop during the last years of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth.

Monarchs have a great weakness, however, for their own sons, no matter how feckless and inept. A statistical study should be done across cultures assessing the relative frequency of the bizarre outcomes to which monarchical succession is prone: failure to provide an heir or successor, provision of an heir completely inept, or division of rule among several incompatible ones. Orderly succession followed by a successful reign is the exception.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

Some titles are inherited, though only when the bloodline or some other tangible connection with the original winner has been established, suggesting that the winners have continued to exist in their descendants. The heirs to titles are therefore obliged to display the appropriate emblems: a coat of arms or identifiable styles of speech, clothing, or behavior. It is a principal function of society to validate titles and to assure their perpetual recognition.

If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.

I lead God's people on the path of righteousness and my inheritance is filled with good and wonderful things.

Remember: what you are, we were. What we are, you will become.

Yet even in death, my dad was ineradicable, no matter how hard I tried to wish him out of the picture– for there he always was, in my hands and my voice and my walk, in my darting sideways glance as I left the restaurant with Hobie, the very set of my head recalling his old, preening habit of checking himself out in any mirror-like surface.

How children dance," Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, "to the unlived lives of their parents

Lyndon was his father's shadow and replica.

We have no children Harriet. Or, rather, I have no children. You have one child.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

What's poor Richard ever done to you except get himself born first?" The blue eyes were speculative. "Ill-calculated," he agreed. "But not necessarily final.

As a man, this child would be one's offering to the future races of men. The burden of his upbringing, wherever it fell: however tiresome or onerous, was of no importance compared with his living grasp of the future.

There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.