Quotes About Inheritance

Children will rarely appreciate their legacy with the same ardency that their parents labored to provide it.

A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

A greedy father has thieves for children

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.

Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home.

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

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.

Sometimes it seemed like the whole point of life was not to die the same death as your father.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

Me and my dad have exactly the same head and nose.

I definitely think there is a lot of expectation and pressure being a star's son.