Quotes About Inheritance

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.

Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.

My greatness shall never be measured by my actions or accomplishments, but rather by those of my son's guided by my teachings.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

Let me tweak that just a bit: "In times of great abundance, learners will inherit the earth...." Imagine

The only way to beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

Elk nieuw leven dat een mens begint is een voortzetting van het oude leven!

El pecado actual refleja el pecado original de la misma forma como lo hace una hija con su madre.

A monster, which hath not the shape of mankind, but in any part evidently bears the resemblance of the brute creation, hath no inheritable blood, and cannot be heir to any blood, albeit it be brought forth in marriage.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

But blood is never left up to you, blood will call to blood. You can't deny your own kin.

the history of any family is a history of death and misfortune.

Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.

We are agreed that the son shall not be disgraced even by the crime of the father, much less by the crime of a more distant relative. It

The ark stood in the midst of Jordan, till the whole camp of Israel was safely got over into Canaan, Joshua 3:17, and so doth the covenant, which the ark did but typify. Yea, Christ, covenant and all, stand to secure the saints a safe passage to heaven. If but one believer drowns, the covenant must drown with him; Christ and the saint are put together as co-heirs of the same inheritance

In a word, when thou wert made a holy righteous person, then did God begin heaven in thy soul. That day thou wert born again, an heir to heaven was born.

All things are yours who are Christ's. He hath given life to be yours, hath given death also. He that hath given heaven for your inheritance—Paul and Cephas, his ministers and ordinances to help you thither—hath given the world with all the afflictions of it, yea, the prince of it too, with all his wrath and power, in order to the same end. This, indeed, is love and wisdom in a riddle, but you who have the Spirit of Christ can unfold it.

The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

instead of investing a stream of savings, you have just inherited a lump sum of money at age 25 from Uncle Fred that is large enough to fund your retirement at age 65

Before he'd shoved off in his canoe, he'd said, "We don't die. In the things we pass on to our children, we go on living.