Quotes About Inheritance

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Peace is one of the greatest gifts we can leave our children.

I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

Don't waste our children's future on man's past.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

I was born in the house my father built.

We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic." - Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014

The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy.