Quotes About Inheritance

For Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset would not spend his life as Earl Clyvedon. That was a mere courtesy title. Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset—the baby who possessed more names than any baby could possibly need—was the heir to one of England's oldest and richest dukedoms. And his father, the ninth Duke of Hastings, had waited years for this moment

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In growing older, we become our parents.

Eddy, Vita's cousin. Even better, if Vita herself had been born

Ton père? Il est le dernier de cette race effrayante des Tournemine, qui durant les siècles, ont fondu comme des oiseaux de proie sur tout ce qui passait à portée de leurs tours (.....) Il ne lui restait rien de la puissance ni de l'énorme fortune qui faisaient dire, à certaine époque, que les messieurs de La Hunaudaye étaient seulement un peu moins grands seigneurs que le Roi de France. Il s'appelait Pierre ....

murió María Esther antes que llegáramos a comprometernos. Entramos en los cuarenta años con la inexpresada idea de que el nuestro, simple y silencioso matrimonio de hermanos, era necesaria clausura de la genealogía asentada por nuestros bisabuelos en nuestra casa.

Entramos en los cuarenta años con la inexpresada idea de que el nuestro, simple y silencioso matrimonio de hermanos, era necesaria clausura de la genealogía asentada por los bisabuelos en nuestra casa. Nos moriríamos allí algún día, vagos y esquivos primos se quedarían con la casa y la echarían al suelo para enriquecerse con el terreno y los ladrillos; o mejor, nosotros mismos la voltearíamos justicieramente antes de que fuese demasiado tarde.

I don't believe in that shit, Oscar. That's our parents' shit. —It's ours too, he said.

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

BY THE 1890s the Astor estate, comprising the assets of both cousins, was worth about $200 million. In the 1930s the historian Burton J. Hendrick called it "the world's greatest monument to unearned increment…a first mortgage on Fate itself.

Like I said, I'm a disappointment to her. She wanted me to be a murderer and an extortionist, like my father.

The Princess knew in her heart she is strong, smart, and capable because it is in her blood. - Kailin Gow, Mysterious Teacher (PULSE Vampire Series)

Heritage - be proud of it for you will be its legacy. It's your responsibility to carry on and learn your heritage. Otherwise, it will be lost.

A lifetime of building an empire can fall in a day because of the wrong successor to the empire. - STRONG by Kailin Gow

You are not the first Heterodyne to be more concerned with destruction than with the continuation of the family.

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

By contrast, whatever happened to Maryam today wouldn't matter very much. She'd still inherit a business and a place in society. The rich lived in a different universe.

All'improvviso, un pensiero folgorò Fukuichi: frustrazione e tristezza sono l'eredità di ciascuno di noi. Per quanto si possa credere di godere a sufficienza di un bene qualunque, il godimento non è mai pieno, ma sarà sempre manchevole di qualcosa. Nessuno può avere tutto ciò che vuole, e ognuno è solo sulla faccia della terra.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Well, just remember this. When my ma got me, she picked what she wanted. But when your ma got you, she had to take what she got.

A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.