Quotes About Inheritance

They were just men, and they left money, not memories.

was a phrase my mother inherited from her mother. I had heard Grandma Anglund use it for occasions ranging from a scraped knee (mine) to a family burned out of its farm.

Sure, these things had belonged to my grandpa, but they didn't mean anything to me and didn't hold any special memories.

It is beyond endurance, the continued life of things, when the owner of those things is dead.

I always complained about my mother's stony heart. Turns out I'm built just the same.

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.

You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Alles zerfällt im Augenblicke, wenn man nicht ein Dasein erschaffen hat, das über dem Sarge noch fortdauert. Um wen bei seinem Alter Söhne, Enkel und Urenkel stehen, der wird oft tausend Jahre alt.

As Sanford saw his inherited fortune draining away, his connections at the Belgian court loomed larger for him.

And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections.

Everyone alive in the tenth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, and his children Drogo, Pippin and, of course, not forgetting Hugh. If

What's bred in the bone is sure to come out in the flesh.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or even grow into complete abnormalities in the child which will be produced.

Show me, Grandfather, and I will finish what you started.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.