Quotes About Inheritance

That is why an expiring form of money is crucial. Power passed from generation to generation in the abstract form of wealth leads to privilege and corruption. Money must not be hoarded for its own sake but must be continually employed for a fruitful purpose.

Imagine there's no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them.

Even what's inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you'd die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited.

As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author.

You know, Manus sniffs and wipes the back of his hand under his nose. I'm high right now so it's okay if I tell you this. Manus looks at Brandy bent over him and me crouched in the dirt. First, Manus says, your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

No clear chain of succession was evident. Palpatine had no family of which to speak, at least as far as anyone knew.

SIN is that tendency or disposition to sin that we inherit from Adam. SINS are the specific acts of sin that we commit as the result of our tendency to sin.

All is death, woman. All is pain. Love breeds loss. Isolation breeds resentment. No matter which way we turn, we are beaten. Our only true inheritance is death. And our only legacy, dust.

Isn't there anything you care about?" "All is death, woman. All is pain. Love breeds loss. Isolation breeds resentment. No matter which way we turn, we are beaten. Our only true inheritance is death. And our only legacy, dust.

Their daddies taught them how to keep a slave in line, passed down this brutal heirloom.

Their daddies taught them how to keep a slave in line, passed down this brutal heirloom. Take him away from his family, whip him until all he remembers is the whip, chain him up so all he knows is chains. A term in an iron sweatbox, cooking his brains in the sun, had a way of bringing a buck around, and so did a dark cell, a room aloft in darkness, outside time.

You're supposed to pass on something useful to your children.

We seldom know what echo our actions will find, buy our stories will most certainly outlast us.

There isn't a story in the world that isn't in part, at least, addressed to the past.

He caught a glimpse in the mirror the other day, and how in tarnation did I acquire the face of my father's father?

He was the son of his son--he was here, he was left behind.

There isn't a story in the world that isn't in part, at least, addressed to the past. I

They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead.

She might have been a for­tune hunter, you know. Not an es­pe­cially good one. War­ren laughed. I have no for­tune. But you will one day. Daniel shook his head. It's never too soon to take pre­cau­tions. Ah yes. Lord save me from lovely young women.

I cannot be guilty of something that other people have done, even if it is my parents or grandparents.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Here have lived for more centuries than I can count, the obscure generations of my own obscure family. Not one of these Richards, Johns, Annes, Elizabeths have left a token of himself behind him, yet all, working together with their spades and their needles, their love-making and their child-bearing have left this. -Viginia Woolf

the whole of life, its masters, its adventurers, then appeared in long ranks of magnificent human beings behind me; and I was the inheritor; I, the continuer; I, the person miraculously appointed to carry it on.

We think back through our mothers and grandmothers, if we are women.