Quotes About Inheritance

There was a cheapness to the killing; it lacked righteousness. It was like gaining a fortune through inheritance. Lane

the good society would have a low rate of inheritance of social status and correspondingly low variations in income and wealth.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

El cuerpo del hombre es la casa donde residen sus antepasados muertos

We will leave a name.

False. I will always be a Savaric, my lord. Do not deceive yourself. What I was born to may not be taken from me.' She hesitates. 'It may only be added to.

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

I'll tell you something: I'll always be broke. It's a tradition in the family. My grandfather was a bankrupt. My father was a pauper. My uncle was a miser: he went crazy because he couldn't find any money to mise over.

When a kingdom loses its king, there's always a scramble to grab.

Then, my son, when the strong have devoured each other, the Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled, and the meek shall inherit the earth.

The sons shaped their feet with the shoes of their fathers. To the plight of their mothers, the daughters surrendered their dreams." —"THE RIVER," LARRY D. THOMAS

As you are now so once were we.

Alcoholism is not a disease here but a venerated family heirloom.

But as William Faulkner said, and as I was about to learn, the past is not only still with us, the past is not even the past. The warning call from Wally

He's millions in debt. He hasn't stopped drinking and gambling since his father was assassinated." Brilliantly assassinated, Plagueis thought.

The transmission from generation to generation of vast fortunes by will, inheritance, or gift," declared FDR, "is not consistent with the ideals and sentiments of the American people," adding that "inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation as inherited political power was inconsistent with the ideals of the generation which established our government.

How many of us share the stories of our lives with our own children? What a loss to the children if we don't.

They were my parents. Dead. They died in their bed under freakish circumstances three months ago, leaving my brothers and me devastated and bankrupt.

I always used to hear Mom say Grandma Dotty was a big pack rat. And to be honest, I never really thought about what that meant. I just thought:

He wanted an heir, a tiny piece of immortality.

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.

My grandmother has a great aesthetic sense. Unfortunately I didn't inherit it.