Inheritance Quotes

259 quotes by 223 authors

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. — Lord Byron
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a… — Eric Clapton
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything… — Maya Angelou
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? — Jean Anouilh
It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which… — Charles Ferguson
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. — Benjamin Disraeli
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. — Edmund Burke
In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features… — Ellsworth Huntington
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the… — Ernst Haeckel
Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others… — J C Ryle
You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have… — Saint John Chrysostom
The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital… — Ambrose
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more… — Thomas Jefferson
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. — Harold Bloom
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
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Charles Thom
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage - in every… — Russell M. Nelson
We need to repent of our willing cooperation in our money-centered culture, which is depleting the natural resources that God designed for all humankind. He… — Paul Brand

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