Quotes About Inheritors

#1. Projectors, Brokers of Capital, Insurancers, Peddlers upon the global Scale, Enterprisers and Quacks, - these are the last poor fallen and feckless inheritors of a knowledge they can never use, but in the service of Greed.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. We are inheritors of progress, of a technological rebirth that had only ever been imagined before now. We don't talk about it, but at some point, it became clear to me: I am the child of a bookless age.

Ashley Mansour

#3. It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.

Samuel Moyn

#4. It is not we Greeks alone who are the inheritors of Greek civilisation... all, of whatever nationality, who share the ancient Greek attitude to life, are Greeks.

Leonard Cottrell

#5. My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos. It is a hopeless task.

Colin Meloy

#6. All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now that the season of giving is yours and not your inheritors.

Kahlil Gibran

#7. Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.

Tom Brokaw

#8. We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

Terence McKenna

#9. Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet

Marc Bekoff

#10. The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.

John Allen Fraser

#11. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors'.

Kahlil Gibran

#12. Whatever our religion and our private convictions, we are the collective inheritors of things both excellent and rare, and political life, for us, ought to have one overriding goal, which is to hold fast to those things, in order to pass them on to our children.

Roger Scruton

#13. Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#14. A great deal of struggle and sorrow in the world comes from misguided feelings of pride of ownership and possessiveness, versus the humble spirit of stewardship as common temporary inheritors of the great resources of earth.

Bryant McGill

#15. It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.

Julian Robertson

#16. We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

Colin Meloy

#17. Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

James Connolly

#18. For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

Baltasar Gracian

#19. She is a slave, with no way home.

Heather Demetrios

#20. I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

John Fund

#21. Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.

Morrissey

#22. A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.

Jack Black

#23. The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#24. I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.

Valerie Bertinelli

#25. Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

David W. Earle

#26. [Pliny the Elder] used to say that no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.

Pliny The Younger

#27. I use Herbalife products on and off the field for energy and focus. That way I can play my best game

Lionel Messi

#28. Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?

William Golding

#29. I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

Victor Hugo