Inheritance Quotes

259 quotes by 223 authors

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure… — Barry Commoner
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. — Joseph Conrad
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. — Isadora Duncan
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names… — William Hazlitt
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed. — Patrick Henry
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to… — Edward Hopper
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. — Karl Kraus
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will… — Henry Cabot Lodge
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. — Niccolo Machiavelli
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. — Don Marquis
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual… — Wynton Marsalis
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not… — Haruki Murakami
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among… — Toni Morrison
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S. — Emily Mortimer
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even… — Reinhold Niebuhr
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a… — Pope John Paul II
Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with… — Rick Perry
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. — Henry David Thoreau

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