Quotes About Inheritance

My job as a mayor is to look 10, 15, 20 years into the future and think not just about my generation, but about my children's generation and my unborn grandchildren and think - what is the kind of economy that they're going to to inherit and what are we doing today to prepare ourselves for that?

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both.

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Are we being good ancestors?

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers

Ninety percent of what we believe has nothing to do with the process of thought, but comes instead from the four sources of family inheritance, individual temperament, national culture, and economic self-interest; and while we cannot wholly cast off these shackles, we should at least recognize their cramping and distorting influence upon the free process of thought.

The whole world is a gigantic legacy. Imagine having to start afresh each generation: who would invent the wheel, devise the lever, construct the alphabet and multiplication table? I could not; could you?