Bequeath Quotes

26 quotes by 26 authors

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be… — Charles Caleb Colton
We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won… — Bernard Lown
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its… — Karl Marx
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. — Plato
Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three… — Cyrus the Great
Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it… — Paul Dudley White
To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career… — Hallie Erminie Rives
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from… — Henri Lefebvre
The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the rights we have inherited from… — Henry Demarest Lloyd
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful… — Martin Luther
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat… — William Shakespeare
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after… — John Ruskin
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings. — Charlton Laird
Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and… — Julius Sterling Morton
Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing… — Eugene O'Neill
Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have… — Marcus Garvey
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that… — Wangari Maathai
There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. — Walt Whitman

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