Quotes About Inheritance

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

I'm sort of standing on T-Bone Walker's shoulders, Les Paul's shoulders, Lightnin' Hopkins' shoulders, Muddy Waters' shoulders, you know? And if I've inspired other people, I'm pleased. That pleases me greatly.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.

It is a characteristic of potentates that they don't succumb to peaceful retirement. Instead, they hold power in their hoary fists as judgment and grip weaken, destroying any successors except family members.

Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

Conor has my characteristics but there are certain things I love about him that he didn't get from me, like the attitude towards women and the pitfalls I had.

A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.

There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

Football runs in my blood, and I did really want to play football.

I don't think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not many.

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

I want a state funeral with bells ringing across the land! Then I'd love the congregation to do the hokey cokey and for can-can girls to dance down the aisle. I've already bought the plot in Worcestershire next to my parents.

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

My father did not groom us for politics. I took the plunge because I wanted to carry on his work in his constituency.

My daddy had a pocket watch that he wore at all times in court. I gave Greg the watch and showed him how Daddy used to use it.

One thing I incorporated in my novel 'The Poe Shadow' was the little-known fact that documents show Poe inherited a slave and decided to free him.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

Indian classical music is in my blood.