Top 100 Quotes About Inherited
#1. A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.
Paul Rand
#2. Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
Yasser Arafat
#3. there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.
Isabel Allende
#4. I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.
Carole Bouquet
#5. I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother.
Aerin Lauder
#6. Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.
Ludwig Von Mises
#7. One thing I incorporated in my novel 'The Poe Shadow' was the little-known fact that documents show Poe inherited a slave and decided to free him.
Matthew Pearl
#8. In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.
Susana Martinez
#9. But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. You are a leader, Eva Nine. A hero. And you are my WondLa -Rovender
Tony DiTerlizzi
#10. The fallout caused by denial was inherited by later generations of Armenians, linking them to the fateful days of 1915, and compelling them to set the record straight.
Michael Bobelian
#11. Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.
Mary Manin Morrissey
#12. There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn, And calls down punishment that is not merited ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#13. I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
Anthony Kiedis
#14. In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.
George W. Bush
#15. My family always says my voice is a gift - a precious jewel I inherited from my maternal grandma, Julia Kate Hudson. My sister and I used to joke that the 'Kates' in our family got all the talent.
Jennifer Hudson
#16. God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!
Martha Ostenso
#17. Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.
Thorstein Veblen
#18. I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
Lisa Marie Presley
#19. Nothing has to be accepted just because we inherited it.
Deepak Chopra
#20. I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
Jaclyn Smith
#21. The Beat spokesman, surprisingly, seemed to be satisfied with the ethics that we have inherited.
Paul Goodman
#22. He manages to appear puzzled, as if he can't quite remember how we all got in here. As if we are something he inherited, like a Victorian pump organ, and he hasn't figured out what to do with us. What we are worth.
Margaret Atwood
#23. Easy, pet." His voice was laced with soft amusement. "I detect evidence of a temper, which I've no doubt you inherited from the old man. I've seen his eyes flash just that way when his dander is up over some trifle.
Lisa Kleypas
#24. Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.
Michael Crichton
#25. The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
William Ralph Inge
#26. If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.
Neil Gaiman
#27. You've just inherited rudeness. We've had to work at it.
John Connolly
#28. Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.
Eric L. Haney
#29. I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
Garry Kasparov
#30. People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents.
Justin Trudeau
#31. As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
Ellie Goulding
#32. He has held on to certain ideals, like democracy and freedom, that made a deep impression on him - things inherited from the Cold War era,
Evan Osnos
#33. The righteousness that makes a man visit the sins of a father upon his children, is the righteousness of a devil, not the righteousness of God. When God visits the sins of a father on his children, it is to deliver the child from his own sins through yielding to inherited temptation.
George MacDonald
#34. I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.
Al Jarreau
#35. My father told me that if I ever did anything artistic, I was going to look like a hooker. I told him, 'With these huge boobs that I inherited from your mother, I already look like a hooker!'
Sofia Vergara
#36. Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
Terence McKenna
#37. Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#38. I just inherited a ghost dog. Duke was in the back seat, his head hanging out the window.
Deanna Chase
#39. The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the rights we have inherited from our fathers only by winning new ones to bequeath our children.
Henry Demarest Lloyd
#40. There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty.
John F. Kennedy
#41. You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.
Edgar Cayce
#42. Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?
Suzanne La Follette
#43. I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.
Claire Danes
#44. I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
Mavis Gallant
#45. As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.
David Blunkett
#46. All my children inherited perfect pitch.
Chevy Chase
#47. Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.
Mitt Romney
#48. I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine - inherited, along with dangly earlobes and a horror of deep water.
Tanya Moir
#49. They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead.
Colum McCann
#50. Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.
Barack Obama
#51. We must guard jealously all we have inherited from a long past, all we are capable of creating in a trying present, and all we are determined to preserve in a foreseeable future. Art
Robert M. Edsel
#52. Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
#54. I inherited the Pack Master title because I'm the biggest, baddest motherfucker in the United States and I'm willing to kill anyone who challenges me mercilessly to prove it." ~ Uncle Owen
Jessie Lane
#55. For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
Khalil Gibran
#56. I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#58. She was the eldest now and had inherited the vague, relentless, unsolicited responsibility such familial rank demanded.
Kate Morton
#59. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
Booker T. Washington
#60. She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.
Patrick White
#61. To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.
Peter R. Grant
#62. Until what is significant is created by you, you aren't living your life, you are living some inherited life.
Werner Erhard
#63. Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
#64. Reza implemented an impressive number of reforms that were designed to turn the cracked empire he had inherited into a purposeful nation state. But he ended up, like so many of his fellow dictators, alone in his citadel. And much of the goods he did was nullified by the way he did it.
Christopher De Bellaigue
#65. This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.
Jack London
#66. She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.
Laini Taylor
#67. Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#68. I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.
Fred Astaire
#69. Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.
Annie Dillard
#70. The most surprising fact that people do not know about breast cancer is that about 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single relative with breast cancer. Much more than just family history and inherited genes factor into the breast cancer equation.
Kristi Funk
#71. We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented - we're born with it. Tone is an inherited grace, the privilege some of us have of making our organic pulsations felt - tone is more than talent, it is its essence.
Emil Cioran
#72. The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction - the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate, bond, cooperate, compete, and from all these the deep warm pleasure of belonging to your own special group.
Edward O. Wilson
#73. And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
Christian Bale
#74. Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.
Chris Evert
#75. I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.
Jay-Z
#76. Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose.
Eric Haney
#77. Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.
Mary McCarthy
#78. Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it.
But true rulers are not born. We are made.
Marie Lu
#79. Inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.
Eckhart Tolle
#80. Furthermore, man is, by his instincts and his inherited dispositions, predestined to a social existence beyond the intimate family circle. Society must be conceived, therefore, as a part of nature, like a beaver's dam or the nests of birds.
Ernest Watson Burgess
#81. As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.
Andrew Lansley
#82. We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.
Forrest Church
#83. Success and cynicism are not only achieved; they are also inherited.
Aldous Huxley
#84. If our genes are inherited and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment.
Edward O. Wilson
#85. Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#86. A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.
Millicent Fenwick
#87. The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home.
Elliott Abrams
#88. Just as Huckleberry Finn was published, the first generation of African Americans raised in the postslavery era began to come of age. Among them were people with musical talent, and at first they went to work in minstrelsy, in the well-worn patterns of show business they'd inherited.
Dennis McNally
#89. I own a shameless number of ethnic necklaces acquired at local markets in developing countries or inherited from my grandmother. These have seen me through meetings in Davos and visits to refugee camps.
Leila Janah
#90. I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.
Leni Zumas
#91. Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
Lev Grossman
#92. In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the further back must lie in time when it was acquired by its ancestors.
Ernst Haeckel
#93. As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.
James E. Faust
#94. We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.
Donald Kagan
#95. University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow instruction from a lectern is like sipping through a straw. Lectures pander to the vanity of the lecturer and stimulate conflict between academics.
Virginia Woolf
#96. Their skin hung loose over their bodies like suits they had inherited from larger ancestors, with the trousers ridiculously baggy.
Roald Dahl
#97. I go forward slowly, dead, and my vision is no longer mine, it's nothing: it's only the vision of the human animal who, without wanting, inherited Greek culture, Roman order, Christian morality, and all the other illusions that constitute the civilization in which I feel.
Where can the living be?
Fernando Pessoa
#98. I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
G. Willow Wilson
#99. From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.
Johnny Vegas
#100. As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village ... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.
Tony DiTerlizzi
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