Top 37 Meek Inherit Quotes
#1. Let the meek inherit the earth
they have it coming to them.
James Thurber
#2. 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
#3. There is not justice in this world. Father, forgive me wherever you are, but this world has brought one vile abomination after another down on the heads of the gentle, and I'll not live to see the meek inherit anything.
Barbara Kingsolver
#4. 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
#5. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Jesus Christ
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.
Roger Zelazny
#11. Fuck the meek. The despised will inherit the earth!
Victor LaValle
#12. 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
#13. It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard
#14. 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
#15. Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
Garrison Keillor
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. The meek shall indeed inherit the earth. They have the power to act rationally instead of reacting emotionally.
David M. Butcher
#19. The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
Robin Williams
#20. 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
#21. The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
Indira Gandhi
#22. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
#23. 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
#24. The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
Cassandra Clare
#25. In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
Barbara Corcoran
#26. The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
Mother Jones
#27. And the meek shall inherit the earth,
Geddy Lee
#28. 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
#29. The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget:
The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.
Kelvin Mercer
#33. The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.
Jackie Vernon
#34. 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
#36. The meek don't inherit shit. Earth belongs to the wolves.
Hugh Howey
#37. The age of the insect, he thinks. The meek truly shall inherit the earth.
Chuck Wendig
