Quotes About Inheritance

She hears a zipper, and when she closes her eyes, she can almost see Ruby's hand reaching into her backpack, finding whatever book she is reading. She wonders what world she will slip into tonight and knows this ability is something she has given her: a genetic inheritance like her dark hair and Robert's green eyes. Because the only time Sylvie leaves the house anymore is through the paper portals of her novels.

Her grandmother's pistol passed down, like a recipe for strudel.

Success is not success without a successor.

my parents' ideals are good ones, and I support them to the highest. But my parents could only promote us to the levels to which they themselves had been exposed.

IT IS AS IF WE ALL CARRY in our makeup the effects of accidents that have befallen our ancestors," writes V. S. Naipaul,

Posterity gives every man his true value.

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

Our refining is a re-envisioning of not only our current society but also our traditions, remnants of the visions of previous generations.

As cartoonist Jules Feiffer puts it: "I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's walk, my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father.

Heir and a spare and change.

And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you're old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well. When a story is told, it is not forgotten. It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become." ? Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key

In so many ways, you can't choose what you give to your daughter, you just give her what you have.

Somewhere it is written that your sins fall on your parents, mostly on your mother,

Our daughter needs to know things, she needs to know how fortunate she is. When I was her age . . .' My mother cut him off. 'Stop it, Franklin. This is how progress works. You have it better than your daddy and I have it better than mine.

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.

I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me.

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

The moment we put an end to speculation in land, we put an end to making money at the expense of our sons and daughters.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!'

I could keep McQuiston, but growing up it was a hard-work surname. Everyone would always ask me to spell it or just get it wrong. I could call myself Emma Weymouth, or maybe I should take the family name and become Emma Thynn.