Quotes About Inheritance

Like father, like son.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face - the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited; and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.

Nothing succeeds like one's own successor.

The King is dead! Long live the King!

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

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

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

Here is a toast that I want to give To a fellow I'll never know; To the fellow who's going to take my place When it's time for me to go.

He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Magic is the accumulated record of psychic and spiritual experience which we have inherited from the past, from former generations of mankind.

It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life. —James Baldwin

Those into whose lives you are born do not pass away. Slow Man

Eve: She had big plans for me. Kind of a pet, I imagine. Like William. Her little trained dog. And with you dead, she figured I'd inherit all your goodies. You're not going to do that to me are you? Roarke: What, die? Eve: Leave me all this stuff. Roarke: Only you would be annoyed by that.

The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground for them. Clearing ground an piling stones is little enough, but it is better than sitting in idleness.