Quotes About Inheritance

There are many wrestlers in my mother's family. So I guess I've inherited my love for wrestling from my mother's side of the family.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

colorful tin trays from my grandmother? A friend confided

No writer, in truth, is ever really a free agent. What he does in his trade is determined not only by his immediate environment and the ideational currents of his time, but also and more especially by the play of inherited forces and predispositions within him.

The waves from that thing are waking a thousand sleeping senses in us; senses which we inherit from aeons of evolution from the state of detached electrons to the state of organic humanity.

When I was a child I was told that whoever swallowed a hock-bone would one day own land, she said. Have you tried that? I was told a sheep's hock-bone bought a croft, a cow's an estate.

A new generation forgets the spectres that may have tormented the old.

There was once a king who had three sons, all

Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich.

And as for the nation, it is obvious that every generation, by virtue of being born into a historical continuum, is burdened by the sins of the fathers as it is blessed with the deeds of the ancestors.

It was true what they said: The older you become, the more you are like your parents. Soon he'd be telling a kid not to stick his elbow out the car window or he'd lose it.

The young family who'd moved into the Miller home had gotten rid of the Millers' trademark overflowing flower boxes. The new owners of the Davis place had ripped out those wonderful shrubs Bob Davis had worked on every weekend. It all reminded Myron of an invading army ripping down the flags of the conquered.

Win's real name was Windsor Horne Lockwood III, as in Lock-Horne Investments and Securities and the Lock-Horne Building on Park Avenue. His family was old money, the kind of money that got off the Mayflower with a pink polo shirt and desirable tee time. Myron

Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons.

My father passed me the concept that vicuna was something very special, very expensive. So it was a question of pride. I didn't want anybody else in the world to be touching vicuna before us.

It's touching that people only think there's one of these around. Dynastic families are all around us.

My dad was a big grinder, a tough guy. I inherited that from him.