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I inherit the results of my acts of body, speech, and mind. My actions are my continuation. By Thich Nhat Hanh Speech Body Mind Inherit Results

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. By Edmund Burke Blood Binding Ties Adopting Affections

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. By Ernest Hemingway, Father Sun Inheritance Moon World

There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty. By John F. Kennedy Poverty Inherited Wealth Country

Every level of inheritance requires a disinheritance from the devil. Satan must be moved off before the saint can move in. By Max Lucado Devil Level Inheritance Requires Disinheritance

I am my own heir. By Lope De Vega Heir

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it. By Charles Caleb Colton Inheritance Distinguished Noble Proud Lives

A progeny of learning. By Richard Brinsley Sheridan Learning Progeny

If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession. By Simone De Beauvoir Inherit Husband Succession Wrongly Transmit

Nick inherited me. By Sherrilyn Kenyon Nick Inherited

No generation can bequeath to its successors what it has not got.'3 By C.s. Lewis Got Generation Bequeath Successors

Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint. By Anne Rice Genealogy History Belongs Rich Human

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children (Prov. 13:22 NKJV). I By Dave Ramsey Prov Nkjv Children Good Man

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors. By Jonathan Swift Hereditary Sacred Family Competitors Inalienable

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom. By Anne Bradstreet Inheritance Wisdom Good

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action. By Gautama Buddha Action Heirs Owners

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. By Alberto Moravia Generation Ideals Laws Resources Future

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down. By Andy Serkis Children End Realize Passing Handing

IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE By Thomas A. Edison Children Parents Pass Enthusiasm Leave

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable. By Plato Honour Treasure Posterity Successors Dishonourable

Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose. By Eric L. Haney Squandered Lose Inherited Wealth Easily

My inheritance how lordly wide and fair;Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Time Seedfield Heir Fair Inheritance

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Fathers Earn Inherited

Inheritance is the idea that one class is a specialization of another class. The purpose of inheritance is to create simpler code by defining a base class that specifies common elements of two or more derived classes. The common elements can be routine interfaces, implementations, data members, or data types. Inheritance helps avoid the need to repeat code and data in multiple locations by centralizing it within a base class. When you decide to use inheritance, you have to make several decisions: For each member routine, will the routine be visible to derived classes? Will it have a default implementation? Will the default implementation be overridable? For each data member (including variables, named constants, enumerations, and so on), will the data member be visible to derived classes? By Steve Mcconnell Class Data Inheritance Classes Derived

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. By Niccolo Machiavelli Loss Father Despair Son Bear

The same trade generally passes down from father to son, inclinations often following descent: but if any man's genius lies another way he is, by adoption, translated into a family that deals in the trade to which he is inclined; By Thomas More Son Inclinations Descent Adoption Translated

I don't like inherited wealth. By Albert Gubay Wealth Inherited

They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead. By Colum Mccann Inherited Privilege Janitors Dead Curse

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it. By Edward Dunlop Person Greatest Inheritance Man Hath

According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father. By Sabine Baring-Gould Celtic Law Father Sons Equally

We do not inherit the Earth from our parents. We borrow her from our children. By Keith David Henry Earth Parents Inherit Children Borrow

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. By David Brower Ancestors Children Inherit Earth Borrow

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. By George Santayana Vicarious Memory Immortality Parents Children

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. By Bill Watterson World Refuse Inherit

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Inheritance Marvelous Wide Broad Time

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. By Leland Stanford Intelligence Capacity Humanity Individual Relation

Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose. By Eric Haney Squandered Loose Inherited Wealth Easily

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here. By George Carlin Property Theft Die Stays

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. By Ruth Benedict Inheritance Behavior Tradition Accept Implications

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch. By Richard Dawkins Life Matter Knowledge Wisdom Acquire

My parents often remind my brothers and me that they won't have any money for us to inherit, but I think they've already passed on to us the wealth of their memories, allowing us to grasp the beauty of a flowering wisteria, the delicacy of a word, the power of wonder. Even more, they've given us feet for walking to our dreams, to infinity. Which may be enough baggage to continue our journey on our own. Otherwise, we would pointlessly clutter our path with possessions to transport, to insure, to take care of. By Kim Thuy Inherit Memories Allowing Wisteria Word

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own. By Marc Webb Inherit Identity Define

The most precious inheritance that parents can give their children is their own happiness. By Thich Nhat Hanh Happiness Precious Inheritance Parents Give

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies By George W. Bush Enemies Inherited Half Father Friends

It was usually a case of heir today, gone tomorrow. By Terry Pratchett Today Tomorrow Case Heir

When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing. By Aminatta Forna Inherit Children

We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title to external objects is different from the basis of ownership of one's own body. By Stephan Kinsella Scarce Body Ownable Resources Resource

Where there's a will - there's a relative! By Ricky Gervais Relative

The meek don't inherit shit. Earth belongs to the wolves. By Hugh Howey Shit Meek Inherit Earth Wolves

Listen to the voice of God and a time will come when you will have an inheritance of all nations By Sunday Adelaja God Listen Nations Voice Time

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thee Earn Thy Fathers Bequeathed

No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric. By John Kenneth Galbraith General Electric Motors Equaled Return

Most wise men, in their private sentiments, have ever treated hereditary right with contempt; yet By Thomas Paine Men Sentiments Contempt Wise Private

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it. By Patrick Soon-Shiong Cancer Inherit

You inherit white heather, a bee's wing,Two suicides, the family wolves,Hours of blankness. By Sylvia Plath Heather Suicides Blankness Inherit White

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children. By David R. Brower Earth Parents Children Longer Inheriting

entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself By Louis De Bernieres Entailment Estates Family Envisaged

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning. By Michael Joseph Oakeshott Learning Human Born Heir Inheritance

I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual's capacity to make an independent position for himself. By Alfred Nobel Misfortune Faculties Wealth Regard Large

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue By Roy Jenkins Tax Revenue Inland Inheritance Broadly

Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey. By P.d. Ouspensky People Inheritance Forgotten Monkey Ancestors

I would rather make my name then inherit it. By William Makepeace Thackeray Make Inherit

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most. By Jesse Jackson Property Wealth Children

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be. By Marian Wright Edelman Choice Inherited Kind Parents Parent

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. By Henry Van Dyke Possess World Found Day Death

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. By Emily Dickinson Presumption Bereavement Claim Lose Owned

The Ownership Quotient, By Philip Kotler Quotient Ownership

I would rather make my name than inherit it. By William Makepeace Thackeray Make Inherit

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children. By Mark Udall Parents Children Inherited Earth Borrowing

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived. By Jane Austen Subsequent Children Family Blood Habits

a species used to strict patterns of inherited hierarchy. By David Brin Hierarchy Species Strict Patterns Inherited

Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer. By Sylvia Townsend Warner Possessiveness Accept Bargain Confer Strike

One of the fundamental missions of a family business is to pass the business to subsequent generations. By Janis Raye Generations Business Fundamental Missions Family

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate. By Benjamin Franklin Estate Time Poverty Mind Prodigality

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it. By Christine Gregoire Inherited Responsibility Pass Squander Build

beneficiaries having By Ruskin Bond Beneficiaries

Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs. By Spike Milligan Aristocrats Heirs Children Dogs Poor

We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education. By Arthur Lynch Ages Step Things Life Heirs

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave. By Horace Heir Wave Succeeds

It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a position and a name. The first requires good sense, but the second demands willpower and great virtue. By Roman Baldorioty De Castro Wealth Inherit Good Preserve Honors

Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured. By Ann Landers Parents Owe Progeny Inheritance Matter

Every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children or what i do for my children is not as important as what i leave in them. By Reggie Joiner Leave Legacy Inheritance Parent Parents

Being kind is not hereditary By Benny Bellamacina Hereditary Kind

My grandfather created a fortune that allowed him to live in luxury. He also went on to build the first industrial building in an area of San Paulo that eventually became one of the largest wholesale neighborhoods in the world. When my grandfather passed away, he left millions of dollars to my family as an inheritance. That inheritance, however, would have been worthless if he had not also given us his legacy of personal responsibility and work ethic. My grandfather refused to be defined by others, therefore setting not only the value of his product, but also of himself and his family. By Celso Cukierkorn Grandfather Luxury Created Fortune Allowed

If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. By Ayn Rand Money Heir Equal Serves Destroys

What, I ask, has the fixed and solid nature of the earth to do with the right of appropriation?(...)But the creator of the land does not sell it: he gives it; and, in giving it, he is no respecter of persons. Why, then, are some of his children regarded as legitimate, while others are treated as bastards? If the equality of shares was an original right, why is the inequality of conditions a posthumous right? By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Appropriation Persons Fixed Solid Nature

The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius. By Beatrice Webb Wealth Genius Possession Inheritance Invariably

Monarchs have a great weakness, however, for their own sons, no matter how feckless and inept. A statistical study should be done across cultures assessing the relative frequency of the bizarre outcomes to which monarchical succession is prone: failure to provide an heir or successor, provision of an heir completely inept, or division of rule among several incompatible ones. Orderly succession followed by a successful reign is the exception. By James J. O'donnell Inept Monarchs Weakness Sons Great

The dead govern the living. By Auguste Comte Living Dead Govern

inheritance is a powerful tool for reducing complexity because a programmer can focus on the generic attributes of an object without worrying about the details. If a programmer must be constantly thinking about semantic differences in subclass implementations, then inheritance is increasing complexity rather than reducing it. By Steve Mcconnell Details Inheritance Programmer Reducing Complexity

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness. By William Godwin Hereditary Idleness Wealth Reality Premium

My grandfather ... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right. By Dan Quayle Grandfather People Inherited Wealth Ruined

You must take the will for the deed. By Jonathan Swift Deed

If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has passed on its way to us, we should probably become fatalists in face of the apparently overwhelming evidence that there is nothing in us that has not come to us from, or at least through, the Family. Family portrait galleries are a striking confirmation of the persistence of characteristics which ultimately govern the fortunes of successive generations. By Helen Bosanquet Family Intimately Parents Long Line

I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from ... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing. By Warren Buffett Inheriting Position Society Based Womb

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. By Albert Einstein Bear Generations Mind Wonderful Things

To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim By Emily Dickinson Claim Bereavement Presumption Affliction Lose

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes. By Ludwig Von Mises Case Entrepreneur Vanishes Generally Heirs

If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate. By Guru Nanak Appointed Daughter Leaving Son Hesitation

those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, By Plato Fortunes Resembling Poems Children Inherited