Quotes About Inheritance

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

It was hardly their own shining abilities alone that allowed a son, two grandsons, and a son-in-law of Winston Churchill to make their way into parliament.

Even before my dad passed away, people tried to buy the Lakers. Sony tried in the 1980s. People have always wanted to buy the Lakers. They're not for sale.

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.

My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.

If you enjoy peace now, remember it is out of the toils of those who were gone before you. The question is "will you leave peace behind you when you are gone"?

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.

The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books.

Peace is everyone's birthright.

The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.

We sacrifice ourselves in favor of our genes, trading our fragility for their survival.

What the French call "the caviar left," la gauche caviar, or what Anglo-Saxons call champagne socialists, are people who advocate socialism, sometimes even communism, or some political system with sumptuary limitations, while overtly leading a lavish lifestyle, often financed by inheritance—not realizing the contradiction that they want others to avoid just such a lifestyle. It is not too different from the womanizing popes, such as John XII, or the Borgias.

We inherited the taste for uncalculated risk taking. Should we encourage such behavior?

enjoy our blessings, and try to preserve, by becoming more conservative, what we got by luck.

Which of these two statements seems more likely? Joey seemed happily married. He killed his wife. Joey seemed happily married. He killed his wife to get her inheritance.

The yoke of my birth