Quotes About Inheritance

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon)

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

Man is the Child of his Environment

The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes--to me a beatitude--is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women--or men--can suffer is to be bereft of their past.

All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...

But John Marshal, having four sons and a fruitful wife, considered the youngest of his sons of far less value than a strong castle.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

John of Bavaria, realizing the game was up and his throwing in the priesthood and marrying had just wasted everyone's time, made Philip the Good his heir. He was shortly thereafter assassinated in The Hague with a poisoned prayer book (yes, really – nothing can beat the fifteenth century).

As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His.

when one dies, those who survive ask what he has left behind; the angel who bends above him asks what he has sent before.

And so do his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!His sisters and his cousins,Whom he reckons up by dozens,And his aunts!

Pretty young wards in Chancery.

I suppose we are all products of our parents' joy and suffering. Their emotions are written into us, as much as the inscriptions made by their genes.

suppose we are all the products of our parents' joy and suffering. Their emotions are written into us, as much as the inscriptions made by their genes.

Supuse que aquella entereza la llevaba en la sangre, como un rasgo escandinavo heredado de una larga estirpe de personas que sabían sufrir solas.

He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.

I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.