Quotes About Inheritance

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

You can decide to forgo any ethical deliberations and simply embrace the moral beliefs and norms you inherited from your family and culture. But this approach undermines your freedom, for if you accept without question whatever moral beliefs come your way, they are not really yours. Only if you critically examine them for yourself are they truly yours.

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.

I'm not going to stop worrying. I like worrying. I come from a long line of worriers. It's in my blood. I just want you to make it stop hurting, please, Dr. Hodges.

I like worrying. I come from a long line of worriers. It's in my blood.

The idea that I was building a library to bequeath to the next generation is one of the greatest fallacies of my life. The next generation don't want old books – they don't seem to want books at all.

I saw her future in my body and face, and her past was alive in me.

The drumbeat in your blood is the voice of your ancestors. Let the drum speak.

Meet Madeleine Cahill," he said. "Founder of the Madrigal line.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.

Genes rule the world.

You can blame your mother, and she can blame hers. Leastways sooner or later it's the fault of somebody who's dead.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

THE SQUEAK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH!

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

My father's going to take everything you own and then break your life.

This year she thought of the honeyed glow of the Lansdowne, the buzz of chatter, the champagne in ice buckets on outdoor tables on warm summer days, and she thought of the little bit of money her grandmother had left her last month in her will

My sisters both had Rett syndrome. It wasn't supposed to happen twice but then they found it was down to a mutation in my dad's sperm.

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would think it wrong to edit the genes that influence the 'normal' range of human variation, from eye colour to intelligence or athletic ability.

Various justifications for lower capital-gains rates have been proffered over the years, none of them self-evident. But even conceding the wisdom of lower capital-gains rates, why should they never be taxed at all, even as they are passed from generation to generation?

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

The rumors of Radziwill fortune have been vastly overstated.