Quotes About Inheritance

You can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy.

After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England.

The darkness is my birthright.

Jason tried to summon more lightning. Nothing happened. If he ever met his dad, he'd have to petition for an increased daily allowance of bolts.

You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy

Judging from her wide eyes, I guessed the answer was, No, and does hallucinations run in the family?

Murder and suicide aren't genetic ,' Julia said, scoffing sandwiches in the Black Swan in Helmsley after their visit to Rievaulx Terraces. 'Nathan isn't predisposed to tragedy.' Jackson wasn't so sure about that but he kept that thought to himself.

a birthmark the shape of Africa.

If her talent had been ten-fold greater than it was, it would not have surprised him, convinced as he was that he had bequeathed to all of his daughters the germs of a masterful capability, which only depended upon their own efforts to be directed toward successful achievement.

That was why I kept stealing books out of the parlor and returning them. For the only books I ever took were my father's journals. Didn't I have some right to them, being that they, and I, were all that remained of him?

Your DNA is not you. It is more like the basic instructions for you. DNA is to a person as a blueprint is to a house.

The more subtle inheritance of my strange childhood was the feeling, which we all shared to some extent, of believing we were never quite going about things correctly. Had I said the right thing? Had I worn the right clothes? Was I attractive? These questions were unsettling and self-absorbing, even overwhelming at times, and remained so throughout much of my adult life, until, at last, I grew impatient with dwelling on the past.

What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.

Abruptly, she said, I wonder what she did to so alienate our father that he disinherited her. Do you know? Supposedly… she ran off with Glen Sabella. He was a mechanic, and he was married. Gossip had it that your father was furious, especially since— Since both his wife and his other daughter had also run off without a word.

The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.

Who'd have thought my son would've inherited all my good taste without a lick of sense to go with it? ~Josiah

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

She shook her head in perplexity. I'll never know where you got the idea that you were destined for greatness. She dropped the rest of the rabbit in the pot and begun to clean the underside of its skin. She would use the fur. You certainly didn't inherit it from your forebears.

Children who had inherited money, or a warehouse full of cloth or corn, were sometimes adopted by unscrupulous neighbors greedy to get their hands on the legacy. The prospect of something for nothing brought out the worst in people..

I identified four inherited traits that lead to criminal behaviour: impulsiveness, fearlessness, aggression and hyperactivity. But my big theory is that certain ways of raising children counteract those traits and turn potential criminals into good citizens.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it. But true rulers are not born. We are made.

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.