Quotes Tagged "inheritance"

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

Imagine there is no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them.

Let my heiress have full rights, Live in my house, sing songs that I composed. Yet how slowly my strength ebbs, How the tortured breast craves air. The love of my friends, my enemies' rancor And the yellow roses in my bushy garden, And a lover's burning tenderness—all this I bestow upon you, messenger of dawn. Also the glory for which I was born, For which my star, like some whirlwind, soared And now falls. Look, its falling Prophesies your power, love and inspiration. Preserving my generous bequest, You will live long and worthily. Thus it will be. You see, I am content, Be happy, but remember me.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.

The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.

According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.