Best Inherited Quotes
298 Inherited quotes by 268 unique authors
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While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of…
— Carl Jung
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Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and…
— Richard Branson
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Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor…
— Margaret Sanger
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Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food?…
— Wesley Clark
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race,…
— Alexander Smith
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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts…
— Aberjhani
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My family always says my voice is a gift—a precious jewel I inherited from my maternal grandma, Julia Kate Hudson. My sister and I used…
— Jennifer Hudson
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My father told me that if I ever did anything artistic, I was going to look like a hooker. I told him, 'With these huge…
— Sofia Vergara
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I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most awesome privilege to…
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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All my children inherited perfect pitch.
— Chevy Chase
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Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible,…
— Lisa Bonet
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This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together–…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by…
— Angela Davis
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In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.
— George W. Bush
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
— V.S. Naipaul
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I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.
— Buzz Aldrin
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Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.
— Madeleine Albright
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The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the land…
— Thomas Paine
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Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary…
— Joe Conason
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I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that…
— Fred Astaire
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The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
— William E. Gladstone
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Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would…
— Dale Carnegie
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There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where…
— Joe Biden
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Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education;…
— Frederick Douglass
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