Land Inheritance Quotes

One does not sell the land upon which the people walk.

My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went.

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

If any of my earls, barons or other vassals die, their heirs shall not be obligated to redeem their land …., but they shall be put in possession of it on paying a just and reasonable relief.

We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.

In India, given a choice, nobody ever wants to part with land.

It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal in southern Africa, once resolved a dispute between two brothers about a land inheritance they were to share. Kruger's decision: let one brother divide the land, and let the other brother have first choice.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

I don't have any children, but I can leave my land to an animal sanctuary. That is what I dream about, not bags, not shoes.

If we ever owned the land we own it still, for we never sold it.