Quotes About Inheritance

I have kids, I want something left for them. It's a cliche, I know, but it's true. That's what drives me every day.

I've always had coaching in my blood. My dad was a college coach at West Chester and Ursinus so I had a feeling all along that I would coach.

I've got my mother's acceptance of things and my dad's drive - not such a bad combination.

I get my competitiveness from my mom.

My dad is kind of a quiet guy and he keeps to himself a little bit. But he was a competitor at whatever he did, and it kind of carried on with me.

I want Bappa to be amongst the best music composers. My father was a great singer and I also did quite well and now my son would take forward the legacy, as music is in our blood.

When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'

I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.

When you are born rich, you have all these options. You can pursue a career path that you find interesting; there's no need or pressure to start working to get funds just for survival, which is something a lot of people have to struggle with.

When you have children, you almost feel like you've made your contribution to the survival of the human species. It's your way of passing the baton.

If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

Phil is a child of Holocaust survivors.

My father was an NFL running back, so I feel like I might be more susceptible, genetically, to CTE.

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

I am reproached for allegedly preparing my children, my eldest son, as a successor. I swear to you I have never discussed this idea, even with my family or with my sons.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

Nucleic acids are the main information-carrying molecules of the cell, and, by directing the process of protein synthesis, they determine the inherited characteristics of every living thing. The two main classes of nucleic acids are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA).

I like everything about women except marrying one. But Grandmother is adamant. Either I marry or I'll be disinherited.