Inheritance Quotes

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

“We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.”

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

“It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on top of that mountain, the fierce independence that was suddenly mine, to remain inside me no matter how it scared me when I tumbled, was an inheritance. Indeed it was my chief inheritance from my mother, who was braver. Yet, while she knew that independent spirit so well, it was what she agonizingly tried to protect me from, in effort to warn me against. It was what she shared, it made the strongest bond between us and the strongest tension. To grow up is to fight for it, to grow old is to lose it after having possessed it.”

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

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

“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.”

“This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.”

“On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.”