Quotes About Inheritance

I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.

I think when my parents were together, my family was too prosperous for our psychological health. Not that they were that rich, but I feel that usually inherited wealth causes psychological problems.

My mother's father was the behavioral psychologist, John B. Watson.

My grandmother had a couple of strange books published by the Woolfs. I didn't know her - she was dead by the time I was born. But I knew my grandfather. He was lovely.

Actually, I do have a knack of pulling things off with a straight face, guess it runs in my family.

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

I never really, really pushed my boys into boxing, but I guess it's in the blood.

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.

I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.

Krishna Raj is being made into 17-18 floors, and all the floors will be with Rishi's family; it's not for sale.

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

I think it's quite difficult to follow in your parent's footsteps in the same sport.

I'd just like to carry on in Dad's footsteps. I think that Dad's spirit and passion lives in every single one of us.

I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure his message lives on forever. I feel like that's why I've been put on this planet - to get my message across.

Following in my father's footsteps is not a big deal to me.

I look so much like my dad - same chin, same cheekbones, same forehead - and I play a little like him too. But I am my mother's son. I am who I am because of her.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

The best way to earn a fortune in America is to already have one.

A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.

My parents lovingly passed down the lessons of their lives so that my sister, Jana, and I may also teach our children the foundational principles of a life well lived. There was something else my father passed on, quite unintentionally, I'm sure: learning disabilities. My father is dyslexic, and so am I.

The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being given away. And even if you are dead, it was your money before.

When the founders retire, it's always difficult for the second generation and third generation.