Best Bequeathed Quotes

40 Bequeathed quotes by 40 unique authors

The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are… — Marianne Williamson
May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have… — Abraham Lincoln
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. — Charles Caleb Colton
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946,… — Jerry Saltz
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that… — Vladimir Nabokov
Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is… — Ernst Junger
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of… — Cormac McCarthy
In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two… — Jerome K. Jerome
I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the… — Veronica Roth
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our… — Herbert Hoover
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan… — Simone Weil
Consequently, after the fall of Greece, the pursuit of education philosophy and science almost ceased to exist. Humanity suddenly shunned the wonderful writings bequeathed to… — Johnny Luckett
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the… — Fanny Kemble

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