Quotes About Inheritance

Mine first -mine last - mine even in the grave! - Tempest

Mine first—mine last— mine even in the grave!

Exactly right—folded quietly and knitted in right along with the working DNA there is a shadow self. This won't surprise poets. We carry our own genetic doubles, at least in part.

He was also a terrific showman, a trait he inherited from his father.

Rockefeller was now self-supporting and entirely free of his father

Faced with his son's dizzying wealth, he must have sometimes pondered whether to throw off his disguise and resume his Rockefeller identity.

What he said, what he thought, and what he felt, came from his mother, but what he did came from his father, with the addition of a great caution generated by early unpleasantness.

By securing the Rockefeller Foundation charter in 1913, Rockefeller insulated a large portion of his wealth from inheritance taxes.

To give away the Rockefeller fortune with a clear conscience, he had to convince himself that it had been earned fairly.

This pattern of the sickly wife and the autocratic, headstrong husband would be repeated in the life of their son Pierpont.

Maybe that was what happened when people grew up in a place where mountains shut them in, kept everything turned inward, buffered them from everything else. How long did it take before that landscape become internalized, was passed down from generation to generation like blood type or eye color?

Those complicated curls of hers remind me of the codicils to my poor dear Leslie's will.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

Perhaps you and I have lived with this miracle too long to be properly appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same.

The money you give away while you're alive is worth twice what you leave when you die.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

it is we who live for the dead and not the dead who live for us.

Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life.

We are not responsible for the mistakes committed by our previous generations. However, if we equate ourselves with them and regard ourselves as their heirs, we must then be ready to also share the responsibility for their mistakes.

There is only one true legitimacy, and it's bestowed by love, not male lineage.

At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in the way you hold your body, in the way you sign your name. You don't hear his whisper in your blood.

The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

If I seem a little bizarre, remember the wild profusion of my inheritance...perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.