Quotes About Inheritance

Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am?

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.

A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.

It runs in the blood like wooden legs.

Noble fathers have noble children.

He's a chip o' th' old block.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.

I could have been born into any family. I was fortunate that I was born to an artist as extraordinary as Picasso, and Picasso turned out to be the family business.

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.

I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.