Quotes About Inheritance

he made a few deposits in a sperm bank.

His looks were the result of a genetic crapshoot.

My rage is a kind of domestic rage. I learned it from my mother Who learned it from her mother before her And so on. Surely the Greeks had a word for this.

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.

sorry about my father — but I don't run Panem.

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.

Is this really what we want to do? Kill ourselves off completely? In the hopes that — what? Some decent species will inherit the smoking remains of the earth?

If you do not need to live off your pension and you want to leave this money to your heirs, you would be better off taking the lump sum and doing a rollover rather than opting for the annuity payment.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

When I look at old pictures, I see my son Luciano, not me. Luciano looks identical. That's what's extraordinary, the power of a gene pool.

My grandfather is a musician, my son is a musician and a singer. My mother played the piano too.

Like father, like son, four years and this president is done.

Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!