Quotes About Inheritance

Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes.

for the money that her outfit cost my grandpa.

Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.

In Africa as elsewhere in the world, some peoples were much "luckier" than others, in the suites of domesticable wild plant and animal species that they inherited from their environment.

Europeans have never learned to survive in Australia or New Guinea without their inherited Eurasian technology.

literacy made the Spaniards heirs to a huge body of knowledge about human behavior and history.

Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.

Perhaps I wasn't a child of God at all, but the daughter of a Frenchman.

I know nothing of my biological parents. They live on a lost continent of DNA. Like Atlantis, all record of them is sunk. They are guesswork, speculation, mythology. The only proof I have of them is myself, and what proof is that, so many times written over? Written on the body is a secret code, only visible in certain lights. I do not know my time of birth. I am not entirely sure of the date. Having brought no world with me, I made one.

She hated the small and the mean, and yet that is all she had. I bought a few big houses myself along the way, simply because I was trying out something for her. In fact, my tastes were more modest -- but you don't know that until you have bought and sold for the ghost of your mother.

A born king is a very rare being.

You mean you own land worth a million dollars?" I was thunderstruck. All those years in Welch with no food, no coal, no plumbing, and Mom had been sitting on land worth a million dollars?

Those braces are a goddamn feat of engineering genius," he said. "You take after your old man.

Mattie cocks her head. "Shame on you, then, Sallie Kincaid. You wanted to come back here to Caywood, assume your place in the Kincaid family, reminding everyone at every possible opportunity that you're the Duke's daughter, but now at the first sign of a family fight, you're saying you want no part of it. If you're truly a Kincaid, you don't have the luxury of sitting this one out.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars.

Unless what?" I ask. "Unless, it's all a plot, Sallie," Mattie says. "Unless it's all been a plot from the beginning. Seymour arranges for the Duke to meet a woman he had a history with. Once the Duke marries her, Seymour just happens to show up and three days later goads the Duke into doing something stupid that gets him killed, then before the Duke's body is cold Seymour marries his widow to get his hands on Eddie's inheritance.

My father knew all about this stuff [C.W. Leadbeater]. I owe a lot of what I'm doing, I think, to him. I'm sort of continuing my father's work.

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?

A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.