Quotes About Inheritance

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.

The No. 9, a team's centre forward, is a number that means a lot and, God willing, I hope to inherit it some day.

I think that I did inherit a very expressive face from my mother and my grandmother.

I did not inherit a single dime from my father.

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

The geeks shall inherit the earth - I've always said that.

I don't think I should ask my kids to inherit my business, because they can't start where I did: I was from the street. I'm a very different make of person. I've been a fighter all my life.

My father used to say I would inherit his house but not his seat.

I actually have grandkids. I'm at that age. And with all the things that go on in our country, I sometimes wonder what sort of world they're going to inherit?

A revolutionary party is, in its essence, the party of its leader that carries out his ideology and cause, and the main thing in its building is to ensure the unitary character and inheritance of his ideology and leadership.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

I feel middle-class, but my family had to start from scratch. There was no inheritance from a great-aunt. It feels like a slog.

If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

I've decided with the full agreement of my wife Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and my children that my share of the inheritance will be shared with all Gabonese youth because in my eyes, we are all heirs of Omar Bongo Ondimba.

According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.

You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe.

My mom is a big scaredy cat, and I inherited that from her.