Quotes about Inheritance
You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine.
- Henri Nouwen
Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in.
- Henry David Thoreau
My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.
- David Green
Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our descendants from this life. It is also to have eternal increase.
- Henry B. Eyring
Kids are always the only future the human race has.
- William Saroyan
What I leave behind has a life of its own.
- Audre Lorde
Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The 'many mansions' are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.
- Charles Spurgeon
People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now.
- Marcus Aurelius
I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values. You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn't go on to say anything about inheriting the earth. I
- Margaret Atwood
Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.
- Margaret Atwood