Quotes About Inheritance

It says he's rich. It also says he's a scion. What the heck is a scion? Sounds like some kind of refrigerator or a car.

first law. In every animal… a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ… while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.second law. All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature in individuals… are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise.

Universul era o juxtapunere sau o întrep?trundere de mecanisme opace ?i de comportamente care luptau adeseori între ele ?i care se aranjau cum puteau. Ele se n??teau din hazard ?i necesitate, din educa?ie, din clasele sociale, din realit??ile economice, din ereditate ?i din mediu. Putea surveni orice, dar psihanaliza ?i marxismul sfâr?eau mereu prin a interpreta totul. Nu se mai încerca s? se în?eleag?, se explica.

Mor?ii tr?iesc atâta vreme cât o singur? fiin?? vie îi mai poart? în minte. Noi îi purt?m în noi pe mor?ii no?tri.

Cultura este ceea ce r?mâne dup? ce ai uitat totul.

Odata cu moartea unui b?trân piere pentru totdeauna ?i ceva din trecut ?i ceva din istorie. Ceea ce nu mai ?tiu nici eu din secretele bunicului meu, bunicii mele, unchilor mei, verilor mei, nu va putea s-o mai ?tie nimeni în urma mea.

The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived. How will you leave it when it is your turn? What can you do?

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.

In un certo paese vivevano un uomo molto ricco e un uomo molto povero. Ognuno aveva un figlio. L'uomo molto ricco salì con il figlio sulla cima di una collina, gli indicò con un gesto il paesaggio circostante e gli disse: Guarda. Un giorno tutto questo sarà tuo. L'uomo molto povero salì con il figlio sulla cima della stessa collina, gli indicò il paesaggio circostante e gli disse semplicemente: Guarda.

In un certo paese vivevano un uomo molto ricco e un uomo molto povero. Ognuno aveva un figlio. L'uomo molto ricco salì con il figlio sulla cima di una collina, gli indicò con un gesto il paesaggio circostante e gli disse: L'uomo molto povero salì con il figlio sulla cima della stessa collina, gli indicò il paesaggio circostante e gli disse semplicemente:

Oh ! Franz, ce que tu peux être poule mouillée parfois ! Tu n'as donc pas envie de participer à ce grand bouleversement qui se prépare, de sortir de ta cage, de prendre ton envol ? Rappelle-toi que tu es le fils d'un Aigle ! Où sont tes ailes ? - Je ne suis pas le fils d'un Aigle, mais d'un vautour, qui pendant vingt ans s'est nourri de cadavres. Du moins c'est ainsi qu'on me le présente ici.

Tragische Schuld verkörpert sich im permanenten Konflikt zwischen der uralten religiösen Vorstellung von der Missetat als einer Beschmutzung, die einer ganzen Rasse anhaftet und unausweichlich von einer Generation auf die nächste vererbt wird [...], und dem neuen vom Gesetz übernommenen Konzept, nach dem der Schuldige definiert wird als Privatperson, die sich aus eigenem Antrieb und unter keinem Zwang stehend entschlossen hat, ein Verbrechen zu begehen.

They'd never really been my friends; I didn't cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband.

Names belonged to where we had come from, not to who we were...

It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

The dead man has no place in Parliament; he cannot bequeath his membership and he can never know for certain who will succeed him after his death.

Here, take this knife," he said. "I won't need it anymore. You may find it useful. Also take this spoon. Don't sell it. Quickly! Go ahead, take what I'm giving you!" My inheritance …

Debemos comprender que sólo existen dos miedos: el miedo a caerse y el miedo al ruido. Todos los otros miedos han sido impuestos poco a poco en nuestra infancia por los adultos, pues proyectaban sobre nosotros sus propios miedos y los transmitían así de generación en generación

Shrinks will tell you there are only five problems: sex, money, intimacy, trust, children. No, six: add parents, as in in-laws, Alzheimer's, inheritance. And of course they are all related

whether it was fortunate or unfortunate for Claire that neither of her parents had left be-hind any relatives suitable for raising her—all had either been too dilapidated, too debilitated, too disinterested, or too dysfunctional.

As a respectable lady with excellent manners and now a good inheritance (if Sarah Browne's maid is to be believed), Miss Porter would be the perfect bride for a former rake of limited means like Lord John.

Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. This, in part, is how we become annexes of each other, trellises on which each other's biography can grow.

Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.