Quotes About Inheritance

What earth will we leave to our children, and what children will we leave to our earth.

Quelle planète laisserons-nous à nos enfants, et quels enfants laisserons-nous à la planète. What earth will we leave to our children, and what children will we leave to earth.

Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children

Now Thorndyke is going to enjoy himself. To him a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy forever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery.

He's named you heir apparent to the Apocalypse. Congratulations.

So said the old man: As a boy I gathered fruit from the trees planted by my forebears. Am I not, then, required to plant the trees that will sustain my grandchildren?

was learned from experience, what was intuitively known, and matters of instinct coded in the genes.

Beneficiary of a seven-figure trust fund, destined to inherit a greater fortune

Life insurance proceeds and the sale of two houses

Like her grandfather, she is a knowledge sponge.

He no longer has any doubt that he will pass along what the billions—trillions!—of archaea have installed within him.

Parents pass their genes vertically to their offspring.

Alienated from most of his relatives, Walsh left his entire estate to a questionable charity

Panthea, the daughter of John Kennedy Ching

The part of me that's me is gone. I'm just part of this line of people. There's no me left. I'm nothing.

In contrast, "community property" states have no inheritance requirements for spouses. Instead, spouses are protected by the rule that each spouse owns one-half of all property acquired by either spouse during marriage. There are, of course, some exceptions. For example, property owned by one spouse before marriage and kept separate during the marriage remains the separate property of that spouse, as does property inherited by or gifted to one spouse.

Every day we need to decide what kind of legacy we want to leave. What kind of children do we want to raise? And what kind of relationship do we need to build with them?

I am the man my father loved and was.

I am a warrior, that my son may be a merchant—and his son may be a poet.

Well, of course he does, Sassenach," Jamie said, reaching for another slice of toast. "He left her his dog.

The sins of the fathers," I murmured to myself. "The sins of the fathers shall not be visited upon the children.

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