Quotes About Inheritance

A short-frocked edition of Charles also regards them placidly; a perambulator edition is squeaking; a third edition is expected shortly. Nature is turning out Wilcoxes in this peaceful abode, so that they may inherit the earth.

Money was the fruit of self-denial, and the second generation had a right to profit by the self-denial of the first

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

He saw each of his daughters, part of himself. And he remembered what Judith had said: 'You will live on in our children's lives.' And he began to get glimmerings of a new immortality, made up of generations, an endless succession of other lives extending into the future.

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

A child domain always contains the complete domain name of parent

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."

He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

He had recognized, with reluctance, that holiness was not hereditary, but he continued to hope that it might be compulsive.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are really dead. I mean, they are dead right now. Walking zombies.

There are only two lasting bequests that we can hope to give our children — roots and wings.

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.

Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

The meek shall inherit the earth.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

His blood be on us, and on our children.

Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.

Heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.