Culture Quote by Henry Clausen

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that…

— Mark Foley

I'm sorry, Dite." Dite shrugged away the apology. "You have spared my brother when you could have killed him and you have offered me…

— Megan Whalen Turner

But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun…

— John Milton

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

— Ogden Nash

“But above all he must refrain from seizing the property of others, because a man is quicker to forget the death of his father…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as…

— Hannah Arendt

No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

— John Vinocur

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive…

— Samuel Johnson

To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing

— Pier Giorgio Frassati

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse…

— Henry Clay

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come…

— Learned Hand

The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by…

— William Whewell

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour…

— Edward Gibbon

You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share your concern.…

— Ronald Reagan