Quotes About Inheritance

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

Tan extranjera, tan sin patria, sin lengua natal. Los que decían: y era nuestra herencia una red de agujeros, hablaban, al menos, en plural.

La noche, de nuevo la noche, la magistral sapiencia de lo oscuro, el cálido roce de la muerte, un instante de éxtasis para mí, heredera de todo jardín prohibido.

He probably came here to like live for free with his grandmother. Mrs. Alzheimer, née Loaded.

Only the past matters, because it is the only thing that outlives everything and everyone.

but the image of a "fatal" disappearance of the "vanishing American" allows Indian ancestry - as opposed to African American "blood" - to function as nostalgia and pride rather than shame. Somehow, by claiming the Indians as ancestors, whites can legitimate as lawful inheritance the taking of their land.

The choices we make, for good or ill, will affect the welfare of generations yet unborn. —State of the Union message, January 14, 1963

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

But thousands die, without or this or that,Die, and endow a college, or a cat.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Along with believing that traditional families were bad for children, they also believed that a child's biological inheritance was unimportant and that environment was everything.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

Sabeis como é, s'o pai é uma plantinha, quer logo qu'o filho seja árvore. S'o pai é uma pedra, o filho tem que ser uma montanha.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed.

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

'Moonlight' undoes our expectations as viewers, and as human beings, too. As we watch, another movie plays in our minds: real-life footage of the many forms of damage done to black men, which can sometimes lead them to turn that hateful madness on their own kind, passing on the poison that was their inheritance.

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.