Quotes About Inheritance

Earthmen may even rule at Trantor for a generation, but their children will become Trantorians, and in their turn will look down upon the remnant on Earth.

The image of Hari Seldon reached into open air and the book once more appeared in his hand. He opened it and said: "But whatever devious course your future history may take, impress it always upon your descendants that the path has been marked out, and that at its end is a new and greater Empire!

He had gained it originally by virtue of his position at the head of the Kalganian navy, and through a lamentable lack of caution on the part of the previous lord.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.

Todo esto es tuyo, abuelo? - Todo, desde la carretera panamericana hasta la punta de esos cerros. ¿Los ves? - ¿Por qué, abuelo? - ¡Cómo que por qué! ¡Porque soy el dueño, claro! - Sí, ¿pero por qué eres el dueño? - Porque era de mi familia. - ¿Por qué? - Porque se la compararon a los indios. - Y los inquilinos, los que también han vivido aquí siempre, ¿por qué no son ellos los dueños?

A muchas hijas nos ha tocado vivir la vida que nuestras madres no pudieron vivir.

In her experience, light skin and money made almost anything easier. She wanted her grandchildren to come into the world with an advantage.

si las locuras se repiten en la familia, debe ser que existe una memoria genética que impide que se pierdan en el olvido.

Consideraba el matrimonio como un pésimo negocio para las mujeres, en cambio lo recomendaba sin reservas a su descendencia masculina.

Qué año sería eso? Por allí por la misma época en que murió Pedro, me parece. El joven necesitaba título de rey para realizar el enlace y como su padre no pensaba dejarle el trono todavía, decidieron que Chile sería un reino y Felipe su soberano, lo que no mejoró nuestra suerte, pero nos dio categoría.

La gente en esa larga cola deseaba tener una vida normal, criar hijos, comprar una casa a medias, heredar, acompañarse a la hora de la muerte. Nada de los valores de la familia, por lo visto.

Nunca hay que vender la tierra. Es lo único que queda cuando todo se acaba

Many of us daughters have had to live the lives that our mothers could not.

Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the litter. You would not choose a Spaniel on these principles. (On aristocracy)

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at table.

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

He wants to be different from everyone else and daydreams of winning the global race, Parents unmarried and living abroad, relatives keen to bag the estate, schizophrenia not excluded, will he learn to grow up before it's too late?

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.