Quotes About Inheritance

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.

You are — truly your father's son, Harry. . . .

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

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

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.