Quotes About Inheritance

It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family!

All of our health is basically genetics.

I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky, my kids will kill themselves.

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

No generation can escape history.

History is the third parent.

Each of us is born with a history already in place

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.