Inheritance Quotes

259 quotes by 223 authors

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are… — Leland Stanford
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation. — William J. Clinton
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadsideâ€”are the Night's Innumerable… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that… — Charles Dickens
Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as… — David Dark
To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or… — Niccolo Machiavelli
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates… — Miguel de Cervantes
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of… — Winston Churchill
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired. — Juvenal
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an… — Herbert Hoover
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England. — Karel Capek
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business;… — Charlotte Bronte
We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior,… — Ruth Benedict
The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold. — Jacob Bronowski
One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will. — Armand Hammer

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