Quotes About Patrimony

#1. To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing

Pier Giorgio Frassati

#2. An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.

Edward Gibbon

#3. Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

Mordecai Richler

#4. The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.

William Whewell

#5. Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis Of Assisi

#6. Genius knows no country, genius sprouts anywhere, genius is like light, air. the patrimony of everybody, cosmopolitan like space, like life, like God.

Jose Rizal

#7. When a people is denied light, home, freedom, justice, all the good things without which life is not possible, and which constitute man's patrimony, a person has the right to deal with the people who despoil him, like a thief who assaults us in the roadway. No qualifications, no exceptions.

Jose Rizal

#8. The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Ogden Nash

#9. But above all he must refrain from seizing the property of others, because a man is quicker to forget the death of his father than the loss of his patrimony.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

Henry Clausen

#11. Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

Niccolo Machiavelli

#12. No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

John Vinocur

#13. Stripped of its arrogance, its desire to make off with half of the patrimony and never be seen again, history belongs at the family table. If theology, the older brother, pretends not to need or notice him it will be a sign that he has forgotten, after all, who his father is.

N. T. Wright

#14. We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

Learned Hand

#15. Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Isaac D'Israeli

#16. A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.

Henry Clay

#17. Always the following wind of history
Of others' wisdom makes a buoyant air
Till we come suddenly on pockets where
Is nothing loud but us; where voices seem
Abrupt, untrained, competing with no lie
Our fathers shouted once.

W. H. Auden

#18. Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.

Don Tapscott

#19. Regardless of belief or faith,
everyone is agnostic
until gnosis.

Ivan M. Granger

#20. - when the sun goes out and there's only night, we'll live on the earth. It'll be ours.

Clive Barker

#21. It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

Henry Rollins

#22. Humans in love are terrible. You see them come hungering at one another like prehistoric wolves, you see something struggling for life in between them like a root or a soul and it flares for a moment, then they smash it. The difference between them smashes the bones out. So delicate the bones.

Anne Carson

#23. Humans are strong, but if you hit them at the right point, they destruct.

Cath Crowley

#24. I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

Henry Kravis

#25. Nearly never kills a bird

Harper Lee

#26. Every mom is busy, whether you have one child or more than one. You just learn how to manage your time differently as your family grows.

Tamara L. Chilver

#27. I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.

Teri Hatcher

#28. What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#29. You can coat that shit in sugar, but it's still shit.

Kyran Pittman

#30. Think and unfold the beauty of your mind.

Debasish Mridha

#31. When in doubt, always compliment a woman's eyeliner application.

Lindsey Kelk