Quotes About Inheritance

People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr.

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

I think everyone wants for their kids the good things that they had.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Mr Phipps seemed to think criminality was passed down through the generations like a stutter, or a squint, or in my case red hair.

I was ten years old when I first saw the inheritance and twenty years old when I first saw Janna Roslyn, but my reaction to both was identical. I wanted them.

What do you mean she left me the embryos? I'm supposed to get the cat.

The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, "The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in Him!

Deviance is woven into the fabric of a person's genes, as is intelligence and moral fortitude. I would ask you how

Many people who collect orchids designate an orchid heir in their wills, because they know the plants will outlast them.

Authority is all very well, but no man should assume that he'll automatically be gifted with it because of his birth. Wisdom, not birth, qualifies a man to rule. The people of Kish may have mourned because their king Etana was childless.

Mrs Lovely, A fortune of thirty thousand pound" – cast of characters

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

feeling that it was some betrayal of the awful trust I'd inherited from Pauline's promiscuous aunt.