Inheritance Quotes
Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal
The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.
If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.
Hank had left me his doomed army, and he’d left Marcie his inheritance. Unfair didn’t begin to cover it.
The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.
In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.
The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
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.
From its first startling image, Orhans Inheritance will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon your heart. What lucky readers we are to inherit Aline Ohanesians gorgeous work.
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.
Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our descendants from this life. It is also to have eternal increase.
The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.
Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.
I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.
To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.
I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.
What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.
I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.
The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.
Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.
I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.
Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.
Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.
Policymakers cannot take the situation lightly, for at its worst, it speaks to “intergenerational inequity” – a breaking of the social contract between two generations.
On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power, " the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.
If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.
The greatest legacy a father can leave for his children before he departs is PEACE, otherwise his properties will go in PIECES sooner that he dies.
Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?
Jesus is not a religious leader
One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.
Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.