Quotes About Inheritance

Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.