Inheritance Quotes

Where there's a will, there's a way. Yeah, better hope you get left tons of money.

~ Kirn Hans

You're not content in your position as a factory owner and a rich heiress, you don't believe in your right to it, and now you can't sleep, which, of course, is certainly better than if you were content, slept soundly, and thought everything was fine. Your insomnia is respectable; in any event, it's a good sign. In fact, for our parents such a conversation as we're having now would have been unthinkable; they didn't talk at night, they slept soundly, but we, our generation, sleep badly, are anguished, talk a lot, and keep trying to decide if we're right or not.- A Medical Case

~ Anton Chekhov

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing division as indicated above may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.

~ Walter S. Sutton

Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.

~ Thomas Hunt Morgan

When we don’t care about what our government is doing, we are also saying to the next generation that we are not interested in the possible burdens that we are passing on to them.

~ Rob Parker

…what have you accumulated from the past—what are you in the process of accumulating that will be passed on, if not deliberately, then accidentally? Is this accumulation the best of what has been and the best of what is currently being written, sung, and created? Is it wise? And if not, what will be the next generation’s inheritance, your children’s legacy?

~ Rosalie De Rosset

You don’t have to be dead to leave a legacy.

~ Onyi Anyado

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

~ Ethel Waters

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

~ Annalee Newitz

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

~ Patrick Henry