Quotes About Inheritance

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

If your parents didn't have any children, there is a good chance that you won't have any.

Para ter o que eu tinha eu nunca precisara nem de dor nem de talento. O que eu tinha não me era conquista, era dom.

She had survived like a still-moist microbe among the scorching-hot, dry rocks, thought Joana. On that already old afternoon (a circle of life closed, work finished), the afternoon she had received the man's note, she had chosen a new path. Not to run away, but to go. To use her father's untouched money, the inheritance abandoned until now, and roam, roam, be humble, suffer, be shaken to her core, without hopes. Above all without hopes

The children of these disillusioned colored pioneers inherited the total lot of their parents—the disappointments, the anger. To add to their misery, they had little hope of deliverance. For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

The only thing the English have left is their past.

Yonder lies duh castle of my fuddah.

It isn't the man who wants to who continues the tradition, it's the man who can, and sometimes he's the man who knows least about it.

Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before?

No son wishes to see his son less powerful than himself.

Men, it is supposed want to pass their wisdom to their sons; he would give a great deal to protect his own son from a quartr of what he knows.

the lawyers' saying 'Le mort saisit le vif'? The dead grip the living. The prince dies but his power passes at the moment of his death, there is no lapse, no interregnum

Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind.

If a king cannot have a son, if he cannot do that, it matters not what else he can do. The victories, the spoils of victory, the just laws he makes, the famous courts he holds, these are as nothing.' It is true. To maintain the stability of the realm: this is the compact a king makes with his people. If he cannot have a son of his own, he must find an heir, name him before his country falls into doubt and confusion, faction and conspiracy. And who can Henry name, that will not be laughed

Family name and paternity are two different things, but but one must start somewhere.

Men, it is supposed, want to pass their wisdom to their sons; he would give a great deal to protect his own son from a quarter of what he knows.

Our possessions outlast us, surviving shocks we cannot; we have to live up to them, as they will be our witnesses when we are gone.

Bawling, strong, one hour old, plucked from the cradle: he kissed the infant's fluffy skull and said, I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before?