Quotes About Inheritance

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

I have inherited my father's thick skin, which helps me deal with trolls.

I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The 'many mansions' are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

I am the third generation of women in my family to be struck with a gynecologic cancer. Because of this legacy, we have been genetically tested.

I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.

We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family are different because I've worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away.

'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit of a family heirloom because it was passed down from my grandfather to my father to my older brother and then to me.

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.

I'm a junior, so my dad's name is Thomas Rhett Akins as well. So literally, from the day I was born, it was Thomas Rhett. It wasn't Thomas or Rhett, it was Thomas Rhett.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

I always thought I would die of cancer because my mom and my dad both died of cancer. My dad died of osteocancer, and my mom died of colon cancer.

Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.

He had black eyes like his mother's, and short brown hair which stuck up all over his head like visible excitement.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

The Duke of Devonshire owned Hardwick Hall, Chatsworth, Bolton Abbey, Lismore Castle and Compton Place, and, in London, Burlington and Devonshire Houses. Prodigal peers and their heirs ran up astronomical debts – and mortgaging and other legal devices allowed them to do this without imperilling their estates.