Quotes About Inheritance

What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

What I own is my fortune; what I'm owed is my fate,

The daughter who had escaped the sad fate envisioned by her mother had become a mother herself, and was now horrified that the ghost of her mother's fear had decided to make its home in her own heart.

British and American concepts of individual liberty are not universals that can be immediately understood and desired by everyone, as is often claimed. They are themselves the cultural inheritance of certain tribes and nations.

You can do whatever you want. Besides the works of the Hikaris…seem to be destined to end up with the Niwas.

Go & tell your drinking buddies & psychoanalyst your neighbor has risen from the ashes. I wonder if I should tell you about the love letters hidden behind the doorjamb. This house still stands among my lavender flowers. Tell your inheritors to think of me when they smile up at the sky.

The cold hand of the past emerges from the grave of our ancestors, grips us by the neck and directs our gaze towards a single future. We

Most people who go on identity quests are like children going treasure hunting. They find only what their parents have hidden for them in advance

To study history means to watch the spinning and unravelling of these webs, and to realise that what seems to people in one age the most important thing in life becomes utterly meaningless to their descendants.

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but their offspring, called mules, are sterile.

S? nu ui?i, Darie. Nimic s? nu ui?i. S? spui copiilor t?i. ?i copiilor pe care-i vor avea copiii t?i s? le spui... Auzi, Darie? S? nu ui?i... S? nu ui?i, Darie...

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

This world belongs to our future generations, so we have to take utmost care of it.

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter. —Carl Jung

our cells contain an epigenome that tells genes to switch on or off.