Quotes About Inheritance

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

confession ran in the family.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

Everyone wants to procreate, have a miniature version of themselves running around, to carry on the family line.

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.

Draw great strength from your family and give in turn to those who come after you.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father's estate

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

I realized I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.