Quotes About Inheritance

Dad was great fun and I was a real daddy's girl. I inherited my love of music from him.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.

My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother's elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.

At Knopf, everything is inherited.

I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.

My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation.

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.

We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it.

I like to fish. I collect pocketknives. I inherited a nice collection from my father and grandfather.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this is very clear. Like every other western empire that has ever existed, Americans may claim to have inherited the mantle of ancient Rome.

I think what you inherit is not real. I haven't inherited anything. What I have is really mine because I made it myself.

My dad, was the archetypal charming man. If I've inherited even a small bit of what he had that would be enough for me.

I've inherited the quality of understanding good music from my father.

My grandfather is from Burma and while the tanned skin and Cleopatra eyes skipped my genetic make-up, I inherited the full hairy gene.

Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.

Multilingualism in our nation extends back to several millennia. This multilingualism is an asset, a heritage we have inherited, and is, in fact, a resource we deeply cherish.

I look at my faith like a room, and there was all of this furniture in there, but I had inherited most of the furniture. Then, when I got divorced, I took everything out just to see how I was going to refurnish the room, and that was a very essential step in my life. It was great.

I come from a line of women who can bake, so I think I've inherited a bit of family knowledge.