Inheritance Quotes

259 quotes by 223 authors

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. — Alexis de Tocqueville
We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. — Ethel Waters
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they… — Alan Watts
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose. — Elinor Wylie
Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our… — Henry B. Eyring
A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. ....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called… — Marvin J. Ashton
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and… — Anais Nin
Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to… — William Least Heat-Moon
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own… — Anthony Burgess
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and… — Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom. — Anne Bradstreet
Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against… — Samuel Adams
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength… — Rainer Maria Rilke
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states… — Hermann Hesse
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State,… — Theodore Roosevelt
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands… — Albert Einstein
Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history… — Malcolm Gladwell
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the… — John Maynard Keynes
What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero. — Sam Harris

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