Top 370 Inheritance Quotes & Sayings

You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.

I actually don't know the legality of inheritance in George R.R. Martin's world.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cooacters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.

Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.

Service is no Inheritance.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Love is the human family’s most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance.

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

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

It is part of our inheritance to be, above all, secure and confident in the will of God.

If inheritance tax were to be introduced for the monarch, it would mean slowly slicing away the royal assets.

I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took sacrifice because even though they were endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that's an inheritance. And if you are not willing to fight for you inheritance, even when you leave your children, if they won't fight for it, they don't keep it. Mean greedy evil people will take it away.

Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us? That is an inheritance, and when we squander that inheritance we act outside. We don't know who we are; we don't know where we are.

In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more obvious discriminations like unequal rates of pay for work of equal value. But, in fact, we have not eliminated the inheritance of the millennia that women are lesser beings, an inheritance which still manifests itself in a whole range of prejudice and other forms of discrimination.

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.

According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.

Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.

The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

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

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.