My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I’m not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.
Chemo days make me tired, though it’s hard to say that’s because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad’s usual energy level.
We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents… and we’ve taken that inheritance and squandered it.
We are extraordinarily lucky in the U.K. to have inherited a diverse range of cities that bear the imprints of many centuries of human habitation.
There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Who’s, like, inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in our lives?
I’ve just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn’t get his good, thick hair. I got my mother’s thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.
One thing I incorporated in my novel ‘The Poe Shadow’ was the little-known fact that documents show Poe inherited a slave and decided to free him.
The inherited tradition is that we don’t tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It’s told through the president or the lawyer.
You could argue that Barack Obama faced in ’08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe.
The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and ’20s.
I wanted to honor the memory of my father, who was a great opera singer and died very young, without knowing my success. As I inherited his voice, it is in recognition of that heritage.
My grandfather is from Burma and while the tanned skin and Cleopatra eyes skipped my genetic make-up, I inherited the full hairy gene.
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education – aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness – presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents.
I have three lovely children. They are beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted. I’m most proud of them. I love them so much that I will never want to burden them with a large amount of inherited wealth.
Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.
I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn’t need an inheritance – the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life – and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.
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.
I think my identity as a ‘conservative’ is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think ‘conservative.’
I’ve inherited so much culture, beauty, and love, and I’m the perfect mix of Philomena.
My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.
Dad was great fun and I was a real daddy’s girl. I inherited my love of music from him.
I think when my parents were together, my family was too prosperous for our psychological health. Not that they were that rich, but I feel that usually inherited wealth causes psychological problems.
I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I’ve inherited both sides.
My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I’ve inherited – that I can listen to things and pick them up.
Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.
Yes, I’ve never inherited a penny!
Yes, Obama took over two wars from Bush – just as President Richard Nixon inherited Vietnam from President Lyndon Johnson and President Dwight Eisenhower inherited Korea from President Harry Truman. But at least the war in Iraq was all but won by 2009, thanks largely to the very surge Obama had opposed as a senator.
The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.
Instead of promoting inherited wealth for the few, I want to tackle inherited disadvantage for the many.
My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation.
