Top 81 Inherit The Earth Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. 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
#7. Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
Marvin Minsky
#8. Let the meek inherit the earth
they have it coming to them.
James Thurber
#9. In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth
Edmar Mednis
#11. The age of the insect, he thinks. The meek truly shall inherit the earth.
Chuck Wendig
#12. Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.
James Randolph Adams
#13. Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.
May Sarton
#14. The kind-hearted won't inherit the earth but they make it a tolerable place to live.
Marty Rubin
#16. PSA37.9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. PSA37.10 For yet a
Anonymous
#17. We do not inherit the Earth from our parents. We borrow her from our children.
Keith David Henry
#18. Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth.
Ian McGuire
#19. I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
Maya Angelou
#20. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Jesus Christ
#21. If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#22. The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
Robin Williams
#23. The meek shall indeed inherit the earth. They have the power to act rationally instead of reacting emotionally.
David M. Butcher
#24. Whatever good there is in the world I inherit from the courage and work of those who went before me. I, in turn, have a responsibility to make things better for those who will inherit the earth from me.
Arthur Dobrin
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. You know that passage in the Bible that says, "And the meek shall inherit the Earth"? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, "And the geek shall inherit the Earth.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#30. Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
Garrison Keillor
#32. 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
#33. Fuck the meek. The despised will inherit the earth!
Victor LaValle
#34. We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
David Brower
#35. The popular shall become unpopular. The freak shall inherit the Earth.
Tommy Wallach
#36. Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.
Roger Zelazny
#37. In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
Barbara Corcoran
#38. 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
#39. The geeks shall inherit the earth. I am starting to believe this might actually be true.
Jodi Picoult
#40. I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.
Sidney Buchman
#41. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.
Buenaventura Durruti
#42. We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.
Sylvia Plath
#43. And the meek shall inherit the earth,
Geddy Lee
#44. bestselling author of The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth
Ben Fanning
#45. The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
Mother Jones
#46. The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.
William S. Burroughs
#47. The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
Cassandra Clare
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#54. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
#55. The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
Indira Gandhi
#56. They made me think. Everything has to fight to live. Rats work very hard. If we are not careful they will inherit the earth.
Ben Okri
#57. Indeed, it is We who will inherit the earth and whoever is on it, and to Us they will be returned.
Qur'an
#58. You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.
Graham Norton
#60. My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
Peter Capaldi
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.
Ezra Pound
#64. The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.
Jackie Vernon
#65. Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget:
The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.
Kelvin Mercer
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.
Thomas Eisner
#70. The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
#71. The geeks shall inherit the earth - I've always said that.
Cindy Morgan
#72. May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.
Dan Millman
#73. For human beings. We almost went extinct fighting one another before. Now our numbers are even fewer. Our conditions more tenuous. Is this really what we want to do? Kill ourselves off completely? In the hopes that - what? Some decent species will inherit the smoking remains of the earth?" "I
Suzanne Collins
#74. And yet you're a knight. (Rowena)
Because I have seen the great evil that is done on this earth to those who can't fight for themselves. The meek only inherit the grave while the strong go on until someone stronger stops them. (Stryder)
Kinley MacGregor
#75. It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
Al Gore
#79. Be good at the people who are not yet born. Prepare for them a better place than the one you came to inherit. They will be grateful to you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#80. The meek don't inherit shit. Earth belongs to the wolves.
Hugh Howey
#81. 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
