Bequests Versus Quotes

#1. Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.

Nancy Pearcey

#2. the Carnegie approach to wealth: increase concentration at the top and hope wealth reaches the masses through charitable bequests.

Linsey McGoey

#3. There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it that. And I think 'Martin Bonner' showed what's possible. Later in life, when you've been working at something for a long time, to actually get some kudos for what you do is wonderful.

Paul Eenhoorn

#4. Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.

Agatha Christie

#5. I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.

Ravi Shankar

#6. I never felt big enough playing Thor. And then people talk about you like you're 9-foot tall and 800 pounds. I'm well aware of the illusion. There's not a second where I go: Yeah, I'm a god.

Chris Hemsworth

#7. There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

Mercedes McCambridge

#9. There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings.

Hodding Carter

#10. But this is your home'
'Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!

Joan Aiken

#11. She also demanded of me that, in my art, it should be real passion and not machinery that moved the branches. That was a major gift, the greatest of her bequests.

Magda Szabo

#12. The Holy Grail, the most precious of all Christ's bequests to man, lost these thousand years and more, and he could see it glowing in the sky like shining blood and about it, bright as the glittering crown of a saint, rays of dazzling shimmer filled the heaven. Thomas

Bernard Cornwell

#13. I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist.

Rudy Giuliani

#14. I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

R. Buckminster Fuller