Quotes About Inheritance

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

I get a lot of my inspiration from my family, but I never got to meet my dad's dad.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.

With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.

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

If $85 million is not enough to take care of my family and other generations of my family, then you're stupid.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.

It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.