Quotes About Inheritance

Find freedom in the context you inherit

Know from where you come. Before you know who you are and where you are going, you must know from where you come.

The good Lord has been wonderful to our republic. He has given us the wisdom to fight wars with no thought of personal gain. But this time we cannot pack up and go home. We have come of age. We have inherited both the power and the responsibility of the world without seeking or wishing it.

There's only one way I can explain it: She had bequeathed me her love of words. She was a librarian.

That clan always had deep pockets and shorrrt arrrms.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life

Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.

he was succeeded by his grandson, who was an ass ? but made up for it by being shortlived.

There was much of Henry Wimbush in the long gallery and the library, something of Anne, perhaps, in the morning-room. That was all. Among the accumulations of ten generations the living had left but few traces.

Quando nos sentimos como se fôssemos os únicos herdeiros do universo, quando o mar corre em nossas veias [...] e as estrelas são nossas jóias, quando todas as coisas parecem infinitas e sagradas, que motivos poderemos ter para a cobiça ou a soberba, para a fome de poder ou para as formas mais doentias de prazer?

Ci disarma, infatti, l'inclinazione a pensare che la nostra vita sia, innanzitutto, un frammento conclusivo della vita dei nostri genitori, solo, affidato alla nostra cura. Come se ci avessero incaricato, in un momento di stanchezza, di tenere un attimo quell'epilogo per loro prezioso; ci si aspettava da noi che lo restituissimo, prima o poi, intatto. L'avrebbero poi ricollocato a posto, formando la rotondità di una vita completa, la loro.

così, senza saperlo, ereditiamo l'incapacità verso la tragedia, e la predestinazione alla forma minore del dramma.

That's perfect," he said. "I'm sorry about that. It's genetic, I think. My mother had exactly the same problem, and a cousin of hers too. We're allergic to raw onion.

That, she imagined, was because he had been given the eyes to see things, as we are given the eyes of those who have gone before us, and can see the world in the way in which they saw it.