Cultural Inheritance Quotes

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

Karel Capek

#2. We're in danger of losing a huge piece of our cultural inheritance to thugs and looters, if we haven't lost it already.

R.A. Mathis

#3. Accountability in public office is but one manifestation of this cultural inheritance, and we should not be surprised that it is the first thing to disappear when the utopians and the planners take over.

Roger Scruton

#4. Storytelling is an essential part of our cultural and human identity...when we become afraid of stories outside the mainstream, I believe we have lost a valuable part of our cultural inheritance and growth.

Louise Sommer

#5. A lot of what you presume to be evidence of your intelligence is just part of a vast cultural inheritance.

David McRaney

#6. A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God

Michael L. Brown

#7. Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

John Donne

#8. You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#9. Well, shoot, I don't believe in double standards, where men can get away with things that women can't. In God's eyes, there's no double standard.

Loretta Lynn

#10. The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.

William O. Douglas

#11. Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.

Pepper Schwartz

#12. You never really heard anything about Humpty when he was whole; only that he was broken, irreparable.

T.L. Hines

#13. This can be lonely work, but it connects you to other people in ways that many of the things we could do with our lives do not.

Christine Sneed

#14. Cheer up, make every endeavor worthwhile and never get tempted to take away the privilege to smile because life deserves joy and laughter.

Cesar Gealogo

#15. I just like to write and then perform.

Bo Burnham

#16. While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and cultural pathways on short timescales.

Carl Sagan

#17. It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Franz Grillparzer

#18. Life does not work for people who don't like to change.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

Ruth Benedict

#20. It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

Eugene Ormandy