Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Simmons

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

Allison Williams

My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.

B. F. Skinner

I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Dick Bennett

I don't even look at those things. There were so many streaks that I inherited here, and Wisconsin. When I was at Wisconsin, there were so many streaks there, I kind of let them go in one ear, and out the other.

Martin O'Malley

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

Stephen Sondheim

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

We seem to have inherited our own Loch Ness monster in terms of being able to find this monitoring.

Peter Capaldi

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

We were able to get some big outs. Brandt got a big out for us, and Farquhar inherited a tough situation because you never know when your big inning will be.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

J. Paul Getty

The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.

Jerome Lawrence

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

James A. Garfield

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Ralph Goodale

It was a meeting that reflected very well, with a lot of pride, on the accomplishments of a successful administration. What we inherited in 1993, to what we turn over now in 2006 ... we can take a lot of pride.

Jean Anouilh

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

George Herbert

Service is no Inheritance.

J. I. Packer

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

Karel Capek

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Margaret Sanger

Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

Pastor Maldonado

Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

Walter Gilbert

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

Winston Churchill

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

Winston Churchill

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.