Quotes About Inheritance

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

I hope some of your DNA transferred to me.

My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree......unless that tree's growing on top of a hill.

There is not a simple gene pool entirely free of toxic waste.

What a slacker. Just because daddy paid for his college education, he thinks he can avoid dying for his country." -- Willie "Drafted

They want your sons.""My–? But I don't… ew!

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.