Inheritance Quotes

“Fruity method inheritance”

— André Ben Hamou

Service is no Inheritance.

— George Herbert

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

— Ethel Waters

“Dresses don't look beautiful on hangers.”

— Amit Kalantri

Favor composition over inheritance,

— Joshua Bloch

“Any girl with a grin never looks grim.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Amit Kalantri

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

— George Orwell

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

— Kirn Hans

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

— Anonymous

“You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.”

— Amit Kalantri

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

— Anonymous

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

— Henry David Thoreau

To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.

— David Whyte

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax…

— Emily Mortimer

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather,…

— Ella Maillart

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

— William Shakespeare

“Today, whether we are doing algebra or playing with the computer, we are, in effect, benefitting from some inheritance of the quest…

— Umberto Eco

Someday all the children of the world will learn the truth about their noble inheritance. When that happens, a miracle will unfold…

— Charlene Costanzo

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them…

— Edwidge Danticat

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life…

— George Orwell

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their…

— Eric Clapton

Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole… The characteristics and pursuits of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the…

— Janis Ian

“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who…

— Benjamin Crump

This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out…

— Dana Gioia

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his,…

— Christopher Paolini

“When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or…

— Douglas A. Blackmon

Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be…

— Ferdinand von Mueller

From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed,…

— Ovid

A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a…

— Thomas Jefferson

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and for thy possession, the ends of the earth.…

— Alexander Anderson

...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of…

— Hermann Hesse

Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in…

— Samuel Adams

If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

“Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.”

— Edmund Blunden

“Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.”

— Amit Kalantri