Great Inheritance Quotes

#1. Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. - Author: William Hazlitt

#2. I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. - Author: Herman Wouk

#3. In relay racing, there comes a great disappointment when those who are supposed to receive the baton to get to the finishing line do not get it from those who are supposed to hand off the baton. - Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#4. A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
[Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che la perdita del patrimonie.] - Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

#5. I have a lot of love inside my house. I can't ask for more. - Author: Miguel Cotto

#6. If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations. - Author: Marilynne Robinson

#7. 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. - Author: Winston Churchill

#8. You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity. - Author: Theodore L. Cuyler

#9. A husband? A psychopathic stalker? Frank's mind whirled with images of her being raped in the parking lot by some Neanderthal with a baseball bat while he lay bleeding and unconscious on the gravel next to her. - Author: Pete Kahle

#10. Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. - Author: Benjamin Franklin

#11. The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. - Author: Benjamin Disraeli

#12. To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#13. Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi! - Author: Fannie Flagg

#14. G Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! h According to his great mercy, i he has caused us to be born again to a living hope j through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4. to k an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and l unfading, m kept in heaven for you, - Author: Anonymous

#15. Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know. - Author: John Edward Williams

#16. For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen. - Author: Rene Char

#17. Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, by Charles Piazzi Smith, published in 1864, - Author: Erich Von Daniken

#18. One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority. - Author: Hugh Dalton

#19. The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter. - Author: C.I. Scofield

#20. If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716. - Author: Theodor Mommsen

#21. 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. - Author: James Russell Lowell

#22. An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. - Author: John Ruskin

#23. To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear. - Author: Barack Obama

#24. Jesus Christ! hAccording to his great mercy, ihe has caused us to be born again to a living hope jthrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4to kan inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and lunfading, mkept in heaven for you, 5 - Author: Anonymous

#25. Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. - Author: Henry Cabot Lodge

#26. Quin took on the air of someone who has just realized it's time for the yearly visit to the spinster great-aunt in a desperate attempt to woo her inheritance away from her thirty-eight cats. - Author: Amy Fecteau