Quotes About Inheritance

All that was worth handing on died with them; the rest, they put into their books.8

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

virtue, as I have already remarked, is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt

Taking it then for granted that no person ought to be in a worse condition when born under what is called a state of civilization, than he would have been had he been born in a state of nature, and that civilization ought to have made, and ought still to make, provision for that purpose, it can only be done by subtracting from property a portion equal in value to the natural inheritance it has absorbed. -Agrarian Justice

Most wise men, in their private sentiments, have ever treated hereditary right with contempt; yet

I prefer peace, but if trouble must come, let it be in my time that my children may know peace.

Her mother's voice began to hum to her softly, tunelessly. Jane whispered, "How did you come?" "I'm not out there anymore, Jane. I'm inside you now, and my mother is inside me, and her mother is inside her, all the way back. We're all here, just like those Russian dolls, one inside the other.

They were to be priest-kings in God's creation as sons of God.

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world.

An estate may be imparted without being impaired.

La herencia, la sugestión y otras causas externas los mueven de un lado a otro como peones en el tablero de ajedrez de la vida.

Your identity isn't dependent on your change. You're a child of the heavenly King.

Although believers are now pilgrims on earth," says Calvin, "yet by their confidence they surmount the heavens, so that they cherish their future inheritance in their bosoms with tranquillity."[44] What frees us from the vain pursuit of earthly treasure is the hope of treasure in heaven (Matthew 6 v 19-20; 1 Timothy 6 v 17-19).

Before Kim Jong Il died, it wasn't like one day Kim Jong Un took over. Kim Jong Il made sure his son was known to the North Korean people and it was clear that he was the next heir. He prepared him for at least three years beforehand.

I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

Alia and Shaheen have a smart father and have got good genes. But it's not fair that people expect them to do as well as their father.