Inheritance Quotes - Page 4

• Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

  Ella Maillart

  Home, Conquer The World, Long

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• Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

  Alberto Moravia

  Law, Custodians, Generations

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

  Michael Jackson

  Love Is, Legacy, Golden

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

  Edmund Burke

  Failure, Errors, Political

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.178

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• For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

  Lord Byron

  Grief, Past, Grieving

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto I.”

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• Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to the citizen: “Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.

  Frank Chodorov

  Government, Principles, Different

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.119, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Women, Honor, Literature

  Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford (1923). “Chance”

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• We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

  Don Marquis

  Money, Mistake, Literature

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• But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

  Alexander Pope

  Cat, College, Dies

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Bathurst' (1733) l. 97

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• We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

  Ruth Benedict

  Important, Roles, Tradition

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• As he was about to leave, she said, "Murtagh." He paused and turned to regard her. She hesitated for a moment, then mustered her courage and said, "Why?" She though he understood her meaning: Why her? Why save her, and now why try to rescue her? She had guessed at the answer, but she wanted to hear him say it. He stared at her for the longest while, and then, in a low, hard voice, he said, "You know why.

  Christopher Paolini

  Voice, Trying, Answers

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2902, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Elinor Wylie

  Imagination, Heaven, Able

  Elinor Wylie (1934). “The Novels of Elinor Wylie”

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• Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Sex, Children, Eye

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• These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Laughing, Parent, Stories

  FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Apr 16, 2011

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• Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  Karel Capek

  Literature, England, Dignity

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• You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

  Martial

  Giving, Promise, Wish

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• Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, Progressive Taxation, Names

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• It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy Spirit in Christ. It is His will that we reach out for our inheritance, that we answer His call to be His sons. We are born men without our consent, but the consent to be sons of God has to be elicited by our own free will.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Son, Men

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Hard Work, Years, Heritage

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• Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

  Albert Claude

  Dream, Our Generation, Cells

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• After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

  Edward Hopper

  Character, Trying, Deny

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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• The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Race, Years

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

  Louis Riel

  Stories, Youth, Cherish

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• Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran

  Christopher Paolini

  Lying, Men, Purpose

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition with Video (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, p.194, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

  Leland Stanford

  Skills, Humanity, Benefits

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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