Quotes About Inheritance

Modern families are complicated things. Siblings, half siblings, stepparents, stepcousins, what have you. You can't pick who you're born to, that's for sure.

But the other half of my motivation came from farther back in my brain, in the curious part that I inherited. It came from the spot in my skull that feels the burning need to unravel puzzles, finish crosswords, indulge in Internet games, and read all the mystery books I can get my grubby little paws on. Like it or not, need it or not, and want it or not, I can't leave a good mystery alone.

But now that she was dying, I knew everything. My mother was in me already. Not just the parts of her that I knew, but the parts of her that had come before me too.

Our parents are the primal source. We make our own lives, but our origin stories are theirs. They go back with us to the beginning of time.

Heridas?" -fue lo único que conseguí decir. "Sí" -afirmó Pat- "Y tú tienes esas heridas en el mismo sitio. Eso es lo que hacen los padres si no curan sus propias heridas. Hieren a sus hijos en el mismo sitio.

One thing I never forgot from my Latin class is that a language that is descended from another language is called a daughter language. It was the beginning of the next era of my life, like this is of yours.

Think about this, the people gave birth to me cannot stop hating each other enough. What does that tell you about me? Half of my genes must be fighting with other half, no wonder I am so fucking messed up.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.

Once an old man, spoken of in one of Aesop's fables, believing himself at death's door, called his twelve sons to his bedside and gave to them a bundle of twelve stout sticks, which he asked them all in turn to break, which task they were unable to do. The father, separating the bundle, gave to each a stick which he readily broke. Now, the moral to be deducted from this fable is eminently applicable to us as an organization, and means that in union there is strength.

It is one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

On the green they watched their sons Playing till too dark to see, As their fathers watched them once, As my father once watched me...

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

The idea that culture can be viewed as a form of inheritance goes back to Charles Darwin, who sometimes did not clearly distinguish between what we now recognize as genetic and cultural inheritances.62

Genes do not code for behavior—they code for proteins and control the production of those proteins. How

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

Before us they planted, and now we eat what they have planted. We too must plant, so that those after us will likewise eat.

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.

In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to it.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

We cheat death, not by living forever, but by bearing, raising, and educating children to keep our souls, our values, and even our names alive. One generation, scarred and often embittered by experience, gives way to another, born in innocence and hope.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.