Quotes About Inheritance

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.

I have acquired many wonderful principles from my family, and I intend to follow these for the rest of my life.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.

Being my father's son is a kind of privilege.

But the truth is the meritocracy is a lie. Those born into wealth and privilege will always be able to game the system for their own benefit and their children's own benefit.

I do think it's really tough being super-rich, really hard-working and wanting to get some sort of immortality by passing on the organisation to your kids. But then looking at your kids and thinking, 'Oh, they're just these privileged people who haven't had to struggle. Am I really going to just give it all to them?'

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

My father was an alcoholic. I come from a family of them, so it's genetic luck or malfunction that I've ended up with no enzyme that processes it. I literally can't drink.

If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

Procrastination is in my genetic code.

I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

I have been lucky enough to inherit the patient, loving and nurturing side from my mother, and the organizational and productive side from my dad.

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

When I entered the profession, I didn't make a big deal of it. People didn't really know I was my parents' son.

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

I am my father's daughter: I have his language, his expressions.

I thought my father served the people of Orissa, and I thought I would continue that to some extent.

I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.

'Paris the Heiress.' I tease her about that.