Quotes About Inheritance

I don't think there's any better present than something passed down from your mama, no matter what it is.

Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.

Lettie, as the second daughter, was never likely to come to much

My word, he's ugly!' Howl said. 'Chip off the old block.

Yedi fersahl?k çizme ve görünmezlik pelerini gibi ÅŸeylerin sahiden var olduÄŸu Ingary ülkesinde üç k?z kardeÅŸin en büyüÄŸü olarak doÄŸmak büyük talihsizliktir. Üçünüz de k?smetinizi aramaya ç?karsan?z, ilk olarak ve en kötü ÅŸekilde senin kaybedeceÄŸini herkes bilir.

Un nacimiento no es, en realidad, una introducción. Nuestra vida, cuando empieza, no es realmente nuestra, sino la continuación de la historia de otro.

William Henry Cadwalladr

I inherited my brother's life. Inherited his desk, his business, his gadgets, his enemies, his horses and his mistress. I inherited my brother's life, and it nearly killed me.

The legacy of the past is the foundation of the present.

He had ambitions on my behalf and more or less at my expense. This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished.

This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished

She called me Tuck, which is what her mother used to call her father. All the male Browners were called Tuck. When the line began to pale, producing a series of aesthetes and incompetents, they gave the name to any man who married into the family, within reason.

We do not live this life to build a monument to ourselves, but to pass our understanding of life on to those who come behind us so that their stories can be even more meaningful than ours.

We're each an amalgamation of all those in our lineage. - Fergus McCrae

Where does American money come from? Steel. Railways. You know how it is over there. It doesn't matter if you murder or rob to get it. The trick is in keeping it for a hundred years, and then you're aristocrats.

Peace, and not riches, had been the great legacy which He had left with the eleven the night before His crucifixion.

Let us, then, have it settled in our minds that the sinfulness of man does not begin from without, but from within. It is not the result of bad training in early years. It is not picked up from bad companions and bad examples, as some weak Christians are too fond of saying. No! It is a family disease that we all inherit from our first parents, Adam and Eve, and with which we are born.

an unconverted, unrepentant person would not be happy if he got to heaven without a heart changed by the Holy Spirit. He would be a creature out of his proper element. He would have no ability to enjoy his holy abode. Without a repentant heart, he is not suitable for the inheritance of the saints in light (Colossians 1:12). We must repent if we want to go to heaven.

Insanity is hereditary—you get it from your kids. ~Sam Levenson

I hope that after I die, people will say of me: "That guy sure owed me a lot of money."

He was the product of what his father had taught him to be, who in turn was the product of what his father had taught him to be and she wondered how far back in sheer misogyny and greed the Cleeks actually went.  She had married blind into this, impressed by his self-possession as a teenager, even more impressed by him in bed — or in fact for the first year or so, in the back seat of his father's Caddy.  Her first and only lover.

My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation.

The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.