Quotes About Inheritance

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

The land belongs to the future.

The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle-class is its future.

...we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.

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

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.

King abhorred slavery. But he struggled over how to fight it while remaining true to the religious pacifism he had inherited from his grandmother.