Quotes About Inheritance

I remember my mother telling me, when she was in the midst of settling my grandfather's estate, that fifty percent of a person's medical expenses are incurred in the last six months of life. My grandfather's history of himself was distributed even more disproportionately: Ninety percent of everything he ever told me about his life, I heard during its final ten days.

Dirty four. It's what some geneticists call the DRD4 gene.

You know what's wrong with scientific power?" Malcolm said. "It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. It never fails.

You know what's wrong with scientific power?" Malcolm said. "It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. It never fails." Hammond

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenially rich people are.

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man destroyes God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat Man...Woman inherits the earth.

They talk about adrenaline, but Marder knew it was much more than adrenaline; it was a mystical cocktail that comes only from this one act, from killing men at the risk of yourself dying, a Pleistocene inheritance, disgusting and marvelous at the same time. Sports, even violent sports, were just a pale shadow of this. Why they'd never abolish war.

In fact this bad baronet died true to the conditions of his kind--mysteriously in his library, at midnight, while a great deal of snow was falling.

As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in the process of learning.

A memoir is the lost inheritance.

This was the inheritance she had come back to, the prior life she had run from. She was once more back in a small repeating universe

Luckily, my dad doesn't sing.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

My grandma used to sing. I feel like it's in our blood!

I come from probably many generations of singers because my grandmother had a really incredible voice and sang in church. And my mother had a gorgeous voice and was always singing around the house.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

My grandma's into music. My mom is a singer. Even my sister is a much better singer than I am. So you could say music runs in the family.

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

I have my mother's nose and my father's bone structure, which I've passed on to my children. My eldest daughter and my mother, when she was young, could be sisters.

Portraits of other great ones look down on you in your college halls; but while you are young and sit at the brief feast, what avails their serene gaze if it do not lift up your hearts and movingly persuade you to match your manhood to its inheritance?