Quotes about Inheritance
Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.
- John Bunyan
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
- Laurence Sterne
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
- GK Chesterton
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
- Publilius Syrus
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
- Billy Graham
I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
- Bill Gates
The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.
- Bo Sanchez
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
- John Malkovich
I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
- Glenn Beck
All that I am my mother made me.
- John Quincy Adams