Quotes About Inheritance

I thought we should be rewriting the categories and trying to think of a better organization than whichever one we happened to have inherited.

What kind of cretins cared more about hammering out a string of inheritance than about discovering universal truths? Historians, that was what kind. They would only be happy when they had translated every miraculous book into a product of its historical moment.

For too many of us religion has come by inheritance. We have never said to God as Job did, "I had heard of You, Lord, by the hearing of the ear, but now I have seen You." In other words, "Now I have seen You with my own eyes. Now I know you personally." Most of us have become disciples of the disciples of the disciples of someone in the past who had personally experienced God. But it is impossible to transmit real love or commitment this way.

On language—from the mother tongue came our father's sins.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

There are often many generations buried in every front yard—which makes it a lot harder to sell the family farm and move to California.

I saw everything before me in good order, possible, realized or realizable. Nevertheless, it was as if I, I myself, might generate failure. Not that I judged myself guilty of this failure; it was as if the guilt were an inheritance and had little to do with me. I was equipped with a kind of advance resignation. Everything is possible, I saw, and in the end every possibility can be exhausted.

Mi padre, al irse, le regaló medio siglo a mi infancia.

We must cherish our yesterdays, but never carry them as a burden into the future. Each generation must take nourishment from the other and give knowledge to the one that comes after.

He could feel his father's history like ruts worn deep in the road.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Yet what I sowed and what the orchard yieldsMy brother's sons are gathering stalk and root,Small wonder then my children glean in fieldsThey have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit.

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him.

If there's a gene, I got it from my ma. Her writing has this effortless quality.

Let me tell you something, I'm a big believer, when it comes to quarterbacks and point guards: Who's your dad? Who's your dad?

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

My dad is known as the king of tyres in the tyre industry and he is a completely self-made man. And if I were to join the business, I would be called the queen of tyres the next day.

If I have 1% of my dad's brain, I'll be happy. He's so quick.

It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.

There is clearly this gene inside me or this thing inside me that I've always had in my blood. I don't know, but since very little I've always wanted to be in racing cars, and that was without knowing who my dad was and what he was doing for a living.

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.

There were a lot of assumptions that we were raised a certain way. Our dad was always really clear with us that he is rich and we are not: 'If you want to be rich, you should go do what I did, which is work really hard.'