Quotes About Inheritance

One of the first things which Comfort remembered being told was that she had been named for her Aunt Comfort, who had given her a gold ring and a gold dollar for her name. Comfort could not understand why. It always seemed to her that her aunt, and not she, had given the name, and that she should have given the ring and the dollar; but that was what her mother had told her. "Your Aunt Comfort gave you this beautiful gold ring and this gold dollar for your name," said she.

Maar als jullie genootschap mij kan helpen mijn titel en mijn troon te houden, weet ik wél dat ikzelf alles op alles zal zetten om mijn neef Fabrizio ervan te weerhouden de plannen van zijn vader uit te voeren. - Lucia

The Heiress of Cameron Hill,

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet.

Esterhazy's nephew Christian, unexpectedly showed up. Esterhazy had bilked Christian of large sums, and Christian was eager to spill the beans on his reprehensible uncle.

Philip V. was left upon the throne of Spain, with the condition that the crowns of Spain and France should never be united. The

The sons of dreams outlive the sons of seed.

Always, in the Bull Court, our most precious trophies were the gifts of the dead.

Trutwib went on speaking, her voice picked up volume and power until I heard her prediction ring out, her words that changed everything. "The one who lives under your wing, my lady, shall grow and grow until she outshines you. You will die, forgotten and obscure, and she shall blaze like the sun.

Our children are not going to be just our children-they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Your ancestors are a ladder; upon them climb.

Both of you... what traits did you inherit from your mother?" "Oh. Hmm... I think I got all my bad traits from mother. But my fatal flaws are from father. " ...

There was an invisible baton of failure her mother had passed down, and Nora had held it for a long time.

Legacy. What a meaningless thing. All that work for a future in which they don't appear.

There was an invisible baton of failure her mother had passed down, and Nora had held it for a long time. Maybe that was why she had given up on so many things. Because she had it written in her DNA that she had to fail.

Nora had always had the sense that she came from a long line of regrets and crushed hopes that seemed to echo in every generation.

Because she had it written in her DNA that she had to fail.

I was named after Bob Dylan. Did I ever tell you that?

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

Who you come from is part of who you are. How do you just let that be stolen from you?

Where there's a will, there's a family fighting over it.

Even more effective, however is to compare the results of adoption studies between fraternal (dizygotic or DZ) versus identical (monozygotic or MZ) twins.

Her cabined, ample spiritIt fluttered and failed for breath.Tonight it doth inheritThe vasty hall of death.