Quotes about Inheritance
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
— Albert Einstein
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
— Edmund Burke
Success is not success without a successor.
— Bishop TD Jakes
my parents' ideals are good ones, and I support them to the highest. But my parents could only promote us to the levels to which they themselves had been exposed.
— Bishop TD Jakes
I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.
— Elton John
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.
— Michael Horton
Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.
— Hugh Ross
He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man ... might become the son of God.
— Irenaeus of Lyons
If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
— Samuel Johnson
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
— DH Lawrence
Men are what their mothers made them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson