Disinheritance Quotes

The money that bin Laden inherited was about 20 million dollars over the course of many years, not the much larger sums some have suggested. In 1994, his family cut him off.

After my brother's death they openly preached and set forth that my sister and I were bastards. Well, I wish not the death of any man, but only this I desire, that they which have been the practisers herein may before their deaths repent the same, and show some open confession of their fault

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.

If my advice is lost on the wind and you will not do as I wish, then I do not recognize you as my son…. I see that you go at too lazy a pace in these crucial days to concern yourself with business…. I grow worried when I see you, the heir to the throne, who are so very useless for the conduct of state affairs….How often have I not scolded you for this, and not merely scolded you but beaten you... but nothing has succeeded, nothing is any use, all is to no purpose, all is words spoken to the wind, and you want to do nothing but sit at home and enjoy yourself….But if you do not change for the better, understand that I shall deprive you of the succession and cast you off like a gangrened limb.

The bastard brat of a Scotch pedlar.

It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates.

If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will.

I want to make sure I don't leave any money for my kids, so I'm going to spend it all on clothes.

'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment.

I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.

Civil death is abolished; it cannot be brought back into force.

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.