Quotes About Inheritance

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 valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

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…for fear will rob him of all if he gives too much

In 1957, the death of a trio of millionaires, Sir James Dunn, Isaak Killam, and Harold Crabtree, produced such a windfall of inheritance taxes that the federal government launched the Canada Council and endowed it with $100 million, half for capital grants to universities, the rest for scholarships, loans, and grants.

Krishna's son, Samba, is portrayed in the scriptures as an irresponsible lout, perhaps to inform us that the child of a great man need not be a great man; greatness is not transmitted through the generations. Every man ultimately makes or destroys his own legacy.

Knowledge does not outlive death. Wealth does.

knowledge must outlive death, so that the next generation is more enlightened.

unlike wealth, knowledge does not outlive death, hence has to be passed on to the living so that it is not lost forever.

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'

He threw down the remote with disgust and wiped his hands on the stained expanse of his yellow button-down shirt. What a shop he'd inherited. The backup system had gone on the fritz and he had a bunch of union hires who didn't know a generator from Santa Claus. And a princess anchor talent whining about going live from the field.

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

A defeatist attitude was not in his gene pool.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Everyone leaves a legacy, whether they want to or not. The question is, "What kind of legacy will you leave?

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.

Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply and naturally.

Poštovanje se mu?no sti?e. Tako mislim. Ono se ne nasle?uje, kao imanje. Ne može ni da se kupi. Kao ?in i zadovoljstvo. Nikakvom silom ne može da se postigne. Ne možeš ni da ga izmoliš. Najgore je s poštovanjem, moj gospodine vodni?e, što se ono najteže sa?uva. Otmu ti ga ljudi, pojede ti ga vreme. Malo je ljudi koji poštovanje odnesu u grob.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

The renowned Russian geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky once remarked, "All species are unique,