Quotes About Inheritance

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

Each one of us is a custodian of India's well-being and of the legacy that we will pass on to coming generations.

In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.

Bowen is a Welsh name and the family background is more rugby than football, but we're English through and through.

You can't know who you are unless you know where you came from and give praise to those who laid the foundation.

Sharia is, for me, a personal basic set of guidelines that Muslims follow. It's about being respectful to elders. It's about praying five times a day. It's about etiquette that I have with members of my family. It's about inheritance, and it's about how we get married. Just the kind of basic things that anyone engages in in life.

I'm a little long-winded. My dad is a preacher, my mom is Italian, so I come by it naturally.

The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.

My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else.

The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

A preoccupation with money and, especially, with what money meant was, in our family, an inherited thing. My father's father, Jack, who died before I was born, was very much possessed by the idea that money was freedom.

My dad was trying to prepare me for what he went through as a kid.

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

I feel that I'm very much in touch with my father's spirit and presence. I feel it, sense it and take much energy and inspiration from that.

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.

The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.