Quotes About Inherit The Wind

#1. No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

Dick Gregory

#2. Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

Tony Randall

#3. When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

Dick York

#4. 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

#5. The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

Jerome Lawrence

#6. He who sows discord in his own house will inherit the wind. Proverbs 11:19

Anonymous

#7. 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

#8. Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape

Jerome Lawrence

#9. We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

Thomas S. Monson

#10. 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

#11. How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

Jack Lemmon

#12. The men of this party had both the quality and the defect of frankness in their opinions.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light.

Steven Magee

#14. If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years ... we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.

Dick Cheney

#15. When I rode the train west,
I went looking for something,
but I didn't see anything wonderful.
I didn't see anything better than what I already had.
Home.

Karen Hesse

#16. Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#17. I wanted you, precious reader, to feel the pain of the bullied, the neglected, the heartbroken, and the humiliated.

K.M. Walton

#18. A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.

Zadie Smith