Quotes About Inheritance

Just as my grandmother taught me, and her grandmother before her.

So you don't think the sins of the fathers should be visited upon the children?" Grey sighed, pressing his shoulders against the chair to ease the stiffness in his back. "If they were, I should think humanity would have ceased to exist by now, pressed back into the earth by the accumulated weight of inherited evil.

See, when ye come to reckon your life," she said briskly, stooping to pick up the goat's rope, "ye see that it's the bairns are most important. They carry your blood and they carry whatever else ye gave them, on into the time ahead.

Not all who are born to it have the courage to take hold of the power that is their right.

I'm the product of my parents' dreams and aspirations.

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

I am always drawn to father/son stories.

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been very much in my blood.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother.

My father had it, my mother had it; we wanted to entertain people.

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

Dying should not be a taxable event.

We do not believe that death should be a taxable event.

I'm going to give all my money away, eventually. I don't believe in all this hand-down stuff. Even if I had kids, I don't think I'd want to give them everything.

I have always been proud to be my father's child. And an important part of my journey has been to accept the part of myself that is my father. It is a privilege to carry his work and his legacy forward. I will always strive to walk in his footsteps and become the best person I can, and I invite you to do the same. (Author's note)

I am my father's son. But to be my father's son means they will always come for me. They will always come for me, and I will always succumb.

What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

We have to work hard with the bad language that we have inherited to arrive at that language which has never yet ruled, but which rules our intuition, and which we imitate.

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

But your eyes were bequeathed to me— As anathema And a blessing.

Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.