Top 100 Inherit Quotes
#1. That long-ago day, sitting in this very spot on the dock, she had already begun to feel it: how hard it would be to inherit their parents' dreams. How suffocating to be so loved.
Celeste Ng
#2. Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.
May Sarton
#4. And we don't have to use all the psychological baggage we inherit. We can empty our suitcases and repack them with new rules and possibilities.
Kesho Yvonne Scott
#5. The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.
Stephen Charnock
#6. Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.
James Randolph Adams
#7. The age of the insect, he thinks. The meek truly shall inherit the earth.
Chuck Wendig
#8. North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.
Frank Schaeffer
#9. The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
Tony Benn
#10. Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?"
"Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me." He winked at the girls, who giggled and hid behind their hair.
Cassandra Clare
#11. I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
Will Cuppy
#12. In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth
Edmar Mednis
#13. Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. We
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#14. We cannot inherit Christianity ... God has no grandchildren.
Billy Graham
#16. Every fictional character is real, they just inherit a different world.
Daniel Schwabauer
#17. Let the meek inherit the earth
they have it coming to them.
James Thurber
#18. Creativity is a talent we inherit from God.
Kim Chestney
#19. Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.
Lee Clow
#20. Insist that the first question each of us asks, isn't 'what's good for me' but 'what's good for the country my children will inherit'
Barack Obama
#21. And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies hold the memories of those who came before us, whether it is the features we inherit or a disposition that is etched into our soul.
Alyson Richman
#22. It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. Theodore- Hello, Grandmother. You're looking more beautiful than ever.
His grandma- You did have to inherit your looks from someone.
Jen Turano
#24. Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Ayn Rand
#25. Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
Marvin Minsky
#26. In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.
Michael Gove
#27. If Timlin's right, he thought, the bloodsuckers will inherit the earth instead of the meek. If they can find any blood to suck, that is.
Stephen King
#28. My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.
Mindy Kaling
#29. We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules.
Gerald Edelman
#30. Blessed is the one who aids a thief, hides a thief, revenges a thief, and remembers a thief, for they shall inherit the night.
Scott Lynch
#31. O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#32. 8 Finally, all of you, be of one mind, sympathetic, loving toward one another, compassionate, humble. 9 Do not return evil for evil, or insult for insult; but, on the contrary, a blessing, because to this you were called, that you might inherit a blessing.d
Anonymous
#34. The Good Book says that the meek shall inherit the earth and I expect that's probably the truth. I aint no freethinker, but I'll tell you what. I'm a long way from bein convinced that it's all that good a thing.
Cormac McCarthy
#35. Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Matthew 25:34
Beth Moore
#36. You inherit white heather, a bee's wing,
Two suicides, the family wolves,
Hours of blankness.
Sylvia Plath
#37. In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.
Goose Gossage
#38. But there was something strange about her that made me think she was "somebody." I don't mean her poise, the cool manner in which she stood with arms folded just watching all the goings on at the book party. Kids inherit that poise. It's their enemy, the way ignorance was the enemy of my generation.
Anne Rice
#40. Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.
Tony Randall
#41. I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius.
Diego Maradona
#42. 3God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him,* for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs. 4God blesses those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5God blesses those who are humble, for they will inherit the whole earth.
Anonymous
#43. Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
Aleksander Kwasniewski
#44. I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
Glenn Beck
#45. Russia was allowed to inherit the Soviet Union's seat on the UN Security Council when that organization, which had been designed to preserve the Cold War status quo, should instead have been reformed to reflect the new primacy of the free world.
Garry Kasparov
#46. When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
Dick York
#47. I'M HOPELESS, because I've lived long enough to expect things like this to continue to happen. I'm not surprised and at some point my little children are going to inherit the weight of being a minority and all that it entails.
Benjamin Watson
#48. In the end, we all inherit a stone, after life's waves have rolled over us - and hopefully, she'll write upon it
John Geddes
#49. Pride, I suppose, is the most treacherous of virtues. The Christians call it a sin, but no poet sings of men who have no pride. Christians say the meek will inherit the earth, but the meek inspire no songs.
Bernard Cornwell
#50. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.
Charles Brent
#51. Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up.
Lynne Truss
#52. If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
Abigail Adams
#53. Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
Isabel Allende
#54. The only way the meek will ever inherit the earth is when they get ground into it by the heel of someone else's boot.
Dan Groat
#55. Shadow! or Spirit!
Whatever thou art,
Which still doth inherit
The whole or a part
Of the form of thy birth,
Of the mould of thy clay,
Which returned to the earth,
Re-appear to the day!
George Gordon Byron
#57. Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.
Roger Zelazny
#58. It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#59. Homo Sapiens Loses Control Can humans go on running the world and giving it meaning? How do biotechnology and artificial intelligence threaten humanism? Who might inherit humankind, and what new religion might replace humanism?
Yuval Noah Harari
#60. No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
Hermann Broch
#61. The popular shall become unpopular. The freak shall inherit the Earth.
Tommy Wallach
#62. Someone was saying yesterday, This world
began in time, but eternity will inherit it.
Rumi
#63. Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
Salman Rushdie
#64. But would the perpetual flux and reflux of individualism reduce all personality to the level of mass consciousness? Would American culture remain neither bourgeois nor proletarian, but infantile? Would the moron, instead of the meek, inherit democracy?
Ellen Glasgow
#65. When you love someone you have chosen to relinquish a part of yourself in order to inherit a part of them, and what perpetuates that love is the feeling of confident appreciation for such a potentially debilitating trade. That's why heartbreak feels like a sudden void.
Samuel Armen
#66. We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
David Brower
#67. Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind.
Hilary Mantel
#68. I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.
Jia Qinglin
#69. Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger.
Rachel Weisz
#70. Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover
#71. Fuck the meek. The despised will inherit the earth!
Victor LaValle
#72. The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#73. Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
Sam Kean
#74. I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?
Elie Wiesel
#75. Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally. They are temporal. We can transcend them should we sincerely choose to. Sincere effort is in fact the rarest virtue among man.
Chris Matakas
#76. It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!
Wilson Greatbatch
#77. No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn.
Steven Pinker
#78. Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.
Deepak Chopra
#79. Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.
Jean Webster
#80. It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard
#81. Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life.
Ruth Ozeki
#82. Dowry doesn't rhyme with many words, so I had to rhyme dowry and peach tree [ ... ] My nephew will inherit the estate, but the orchards are unentailed and will go to you.
Eloisa James
#83. Mitochondria, as we have seen, are only passed on in the egg, so all 13 mitochondrial genes come from our mothers. If these genes really do influence lifespan, and we can only inherit them from our mothers, then our own lifespan should reflect that of our mothers but not our fathers.
Nick Lane
#84. In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.
Sally Wentworth
#85. With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to it.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#87. We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
Janette Turner Hospital
#88. The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
Gary Larson
#90. Your life will be filled with good things, for the demons are slain; and you will inherit Eden
Anne Rice
#91. When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.
Aminatta Forna
#92. To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Honore De Balzac
#93. Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.
Paulo Coelho
#94. Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.
Ann Packer
#95. He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them by a thousand separate valuable experiences will pass when their last breath is drawn, without anyone to inherit them.
Stefan Zweig
#96. In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go towards it. You have to claim your own freedom before it becomes yours.
John O'Donohue
#97. Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
Caleb Cushing
#98. If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.
Simone De Beauvoir
#99. Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
Toni Morrison
#100. Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.
Richard Branson
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