Quotes About Inheritance

Give Yarvi the knife since he has just one hand to hold it. One hand, perhaps, but the blood of kings in his veins!" "It's keeping it there that worries me," said Yarvi under his breath.

Why's your name Yolk?' 'Er... don't know. Was my father's name... I guess.' 'Think you're the best part of the egg, do you, Yolk?

the young Lord Smund, a man of impeccable lineage and immense fortune, a little over twenty but with all the talents of a precocious ten-year-old.

genes don't create disease; instead, the environment signals the gene to create disease.

And fewer than 5 percent of people on the planet are born with some genetic condition—like type 1 diabetes, Down syndrome, or sickle-cell anemia. The other 95 percent of us who develop such a condition acquire it through lifestyle and behaviors.

While the process of genetic evolution can take thousands of years, a gene can successfully alter its expression through a behavior change or a novel experience within minutes, and then it may be passed on to the next generation

You don't want to start A Game of Thrones when you might catch fire all of a sudden. There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone always dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your children. Or your grandchildren.

The second kid, he hears that John Donne quote—We're scarce our fathers' shadows cast at noon—and nods and thinks, Ah, shit, ain't that the truth?

Daddy always said Grandpa was so tight that when he blinked the skin on his pecker rolled back.

Your husband had something he meant to pass on to you," Zahara said. "I just wanted to make sure that you got it." Reaching into her pocket, she handed the woman a single tattered sheet of flimsi.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

You are a child of the Most High God. You have royal blood flowing through your veins. God has crowned you with His favor.

It turns out that sometimes the future actually belongs to someone else.

We are all born with a genetic inheritance—but your genes are activated by the environment. They can be switched on, or off, by what happens to you.

It said depression and anxiety were carried in your genes. I knew my mother had been depressed and highly anxious before I was born (and after), and that we had these problems in my family running further back than that.

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

MEFISTOFELE Non posso darvi tutti i torti. So bene che cos'è questa dottrina. Leggi e giurisprudenza si trasmettono per eredità come un male perenne, si trascinano di generazione in generazione e passano inavvertitamente da un luogo a un altro. La ragione finisce nell'assurdità, il beneficio in un danno.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.