Quotes About Inheriting The Earth

#1. We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

David R. Brower

#2. You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn't go on to say anything about inheriting the earth.

Margaret Atwood

#3. Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

Bob Edwards

#4. If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Tina Fey

#5. Elders pass harsh judgments on people who have committed the same sins that they themselves are guilty of - except that they have managed to keep it secret. This is nothing less than hypocrisy!

Samuel Ngewa

#6. Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

Andrew Solomon

#7. We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

William Feather

#8. Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

John Green

#9. The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

Anatole France

#10. From a small piece of relevant evidence, sweeping assertions can be properly made about the true nature of the beast.

Kevin Dubrosky

#11. Anyone who fucks with you is going to be wearing their insides on the outside when I'm done with them.

Trina M. Lee

#12. I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

Heather Matarazzo

#13. [Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

Bing Crosby

#14. Fear is a poor chisel with which to carve out tomorrow.

Andy Andrews

#15. It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Eric Hoffer