Top 100 Inherit Quotes
#1. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
#2. One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#3. My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.
Allan Dare Pearce
#5. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.
Thomas Paine
#6. So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans create stories long before we are born, and we inherit those stories, we adopt them, and we live in those stories.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#7. They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
Thomas Holcomb
#9. You know what the best part of having a gay son is?" Cam looked over to Thomas and cocked his head. "What's that?" "I inherit a second son," he said earnestly.
Jaime Reese
#11. No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.
Gareth Gates
#12. You create a strong, unshakable internal core by unshakable internal core by understanding and pursuing the attributes that you want to inherit from your creator
Sunday Adelaja
#13. In a matter of some generations all the stupid ones will die out and those with your discipline will inherit the Earth
Robert A. Heinlein
#14. In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
#15. The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.
L. Tom Perry
#16. Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit
Eminem
#17. Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
Jonah Lehrer
#18. THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all
Richard Dawkins
#19. The vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth; they earned it. They are the country's achievers, producers, and job creators.
Rush Limbaugh
#20. do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?i Do not be deceived:j Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterersk nor men who have sex with men
Anonymous
#21. To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. We do not admire their president.
We know why the White House is white.
We do not find their children irresistible;
We do not agree they should inherit the earth.
Alice Walker
#23. The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
Cassandra Clare
#24. Even if we've inherited a flawed past with so many disadvantages, we've the unlimited power to use today and inherit a glorious tomorrow...
Assegid Habtewold
#25. I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
Park Geun-hye
#26. In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
Barbara Corcoran
#27. Historically in every recovery, because the president rightly did inherit a recession. But historically, the lagging indicator always deals with employment.
Sean Hannity
#28. Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
Roland Barthes
#29. I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people
Joely Fisher
#30. The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
Mother Jones
#31. The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.
Chris Weitz
#32. Future Farmers of America. Group who take ag classes and are going to inherit the farm. Hot shit around here, they have a couple guys in every clique, and they stick together, 'cause they know they'll be seeing each other every week for the next sixty years.
John Barnes
#33. What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.
Lancelot Andrewes
#34. Blessed are the misfits who make their own rules and stick to them for they shall inherit peace of mind
Chikamso C. Efobi
#35. bestselling author of The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth
Ben Fanning
#36. Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all or nearly all their relevant properties from other elements of culture that they replicate.
Dan Sperber
#37. And the meek shall inherit the earth,
Geddy Lee
#38. You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.
Jeremy Hardy
#39. You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear. We may have authentic gentiles in our midst: these single protests are of no account; they are extreme and irrelevant variations.
Maurice Samuel
#40. 17 A man of c quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly,
Anonymous
#42. We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.
Sylvia Plath
#43. Voclain needs an heir." "As she lacks the anatomical structures to lay an egg, my human issue will have to inherit." "Voclain is a Bloodkin legacy, one of the oldest - " "Then, mother, I suggest you get cracking and give me a brother. He can have Voclain. I'm going to be happy.
Erin Kellison
#44. Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.
Walter Bagehot
#45. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.
Buenaventura Durruti
#46. Most people inherit success and fame; if you have earned it piece by piece you will know how hard it is.
M.F. Moonzajer
#47. 6 weeks since the Rapture "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Corinthians 15:50
Phillip W. Simpson
#48. What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?
Terry Pratchett
#49. We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.
Shane Koyczan
#50. What kind of ethical philosophy is it that condemns every child, even before it is born, to inherit the sin of a remote ancestor? Augustine,
Richard Dawkins
#51. We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.
Asger Jorn
#52. Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
Cees Nooteboom
#54. Living a comfortable life can allow you the psychic space needed to focus on other, often bigger, things and when you treat your possessions as emblems of your hard work, they inherit a meaning that transcends the objects themselves.
Sophia Amoruso
#55. I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.
Sidney Buchman
#56. The geeks shall inherit the earth. I am starting to believe this might actually be true.
Jodi Picoult
#57. It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.
Jacob Bronowski
#58. Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
Henry Ward Beecher
#59. we do not choose our circumstances, the prejudices that we inherit, or our privilege or lack of it. It
Phoebe Robinson
#60. I always knew you had good taste, Mia. You should go talk to him." "I should go talk to him. I should also file my taxes on time, remember to floss regularly, and inherit seven million dollars. But I won't. Ever.
Sara Wolf
#61. For a moment, all I could think of was my cousin Peter. He was twice my age - and married. By the rules of decent, he would be the one to inherit the Rothford title if I died without children. Whenever he was in town, he'd stop by and ask how I was feeling
Richelle Mead
#62. The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
#63. The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
Indira Gandhi
#64. They who have believed in the Holy One of Israel, they who have endured the crosses of the world, and despised the shame of it, they shall inherit the kingdom of God, which was prepared for them from the foundation of the world, and their joy shall be full forever.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#65. Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.
Thomas Eisner
#66. In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
#67. The priest is not made. He must be born a priest; must inherit his office. I refer to the new birth-the birth of water and the Spirit. Thus all Christians must became priests, children of God and co-heirs with Christ the Most High Priest.
Martin Luther
#68. As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.
Dwight L. Moody
#69. Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children ... let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money ... and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
Ansel Adams
#70. We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don't generally think about it.
Thomas Norman DeWolf
#71. It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance ...
Henry F. Ashurst
#72. I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
Henrik Ibsen
#73. I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.
Ace Hood
#74. History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
Jill Lepore
#75. I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.
Myrtle Fillmore
#76. We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead
#77. Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget:
The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.
Kelvin Mercer
#78. While briskly to each patriot lip
Walks eager round the inspiring flip;
Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit
The quintessence of public spirit!
John Trumbull
#80. Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it.
Mustafa Mahmud
#81. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Augustine Birrell
#82. In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
Jerome Lawrence
#83. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Confucius
#84. I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.
Guy Kawasaki
#85. To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions
George Orwell
#86. The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.
Jackie Vernon
#87. The geeks shall inherit the earth - I've always said that.
Cindy Morgan
#88. And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.
Ezra Pound
#89. There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.
Patricia Schroeder
#90. I could stay with Mears-Starbuck for forty-seven years, I thought. I could live with a crazy girlfriend, get my left ear sliced off and maybe inherit Ferris' job when he retired.
Charles Bukowski
#91. I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
Fred Ward
#94. Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.
Dean Koontz
#95. When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.
Jeffrey Lurie
#96. I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
#97. You inherit your environment just as much as your genes.
Johnny Rich
#98. In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it - we're insatiable - and there can be a sense here that it's not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures.
Sarah Ruhl
#99. I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.
Kelsey Grammer
#100. For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.
Robert Green Ingersoll
