Quotes About Inheritance

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

Bedis, Sodhis, Trehans and Bhallas coming down from Guru Nanak, Guru Ram Das, Guru Angad and Guru Amar Das

There's a lot of heredity in that family.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Contemporary China is thought of as the inheritor of Mao's Cultural Revolution, or even of the humiliation incurred by the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century, but rarely as the product of the war against Japan.

I wear my politics like hand-me down clothes: some bits feel like they don't fit me properly, but I expect I'll grow into them, trusting that because they're from my parents they've come from a good source.

We may well discover that the business failure we avoid and the business success we strive for do not lead us to personal success at all. Most of us have inherited notions of "success" from someone else or have arrived at these notions by facing a seemingly endless line of hurdles extending from grade school through college and into our careers. We constantly judge ourselves against criteria that others have set and rank ourselves against others in their game.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel.

I despised how those pale-faced vegans held their little spoons, humbling themselves. Who do they think they are fooling, those bleached Brahmins? We all know that their low-sitting is just another passage in their short lives. In the end, they will get bigger spoons and dig up the earth for their fathers' and mothers' inheritance.

It's also a time-honored, hardwired tradition for children to not want what their parents push on them.

Class is inherited. Calibre is earned.

I have no butt, none of the men in my family do.

My dad had already retired by the time I was born.

I take after my dad in the calm and measured way he approaches situations.

I really feel that I've carried on my mother's legacy.

My mom and my dad are ebullient people, and I think I carry that with me.

Celtic was a part of our family. It still is.

It's funny, I see my dad in myself when I say certain things or I do certain things. I'll say, 'That was my dad right there.'

I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

I come from a Chrysler family.