Sins Of The Fathers Quotes

#1. The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. It is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

Adolf Hitler

#3. The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Euripides

#4. The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.

Victor Hugo

#5. The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

Thomas Paine

#6. There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.

Melanie Benjamin

#7. Remember, she who keepeth the Books runneth the Business.

Thomas Pynchon

#8. The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

Norman Vincent Peale

#9. The Bible says that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons to the seventh generation. But I believe it's the daughters who bear the brunt of most family sins. At least that's so in my family.

Sherri Wood Emmons

#10. I've learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God.

Maribel C. Pagan

#11. If you give your best, they'll take it.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#12. I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

Charles Dickens

#13. The Church Fathers teach us that a shattered heart is the most pleasing gift to God. It is the sign that we are conscious of our sins, of the evil we have done, of our wretchedness, and of our need for forgiveness and mercy.

Pope Francis

#14. When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling.

Joey Logano

#15. Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#16. It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

Sri Chinmoy

#17. Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

James Geary

#18. When the sins of our fathers visit us
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

August Wilson

#19. The sins of the fathers," I murmured to myself. "The sins of the fathers shall not be visited upon the children.

Diana Gabaldon

#20. Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#21. Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

#22. Men were doomed to repeat the sins of not only their fathers, but all their ancient forbears on back to Cain. That was the true mark upon man, scripted in his very blood.

Charles Dodd White

#23. I feel that the sins of the fathers should not be visited on the sons.

Cassandra Clare

#24. The sins of the fathers are to be born by their children's children's children? What sort of justice is that? This goes against half a millennium's worth of Western jurisprudence.

Peter Boghossian

#25. It's common knowledge that in the entertainment industry there's a lot of craziness that goes down, and it's really hard for anyone to stay sane. It's not a very natural environment to be in for too long. It's not very healthy.

Natasha Bedingfield

#26. We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.

Warren Eyster

#27. Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But this always costs something. For the love of Christ was demonstrated through suffering and those who experience that love can never put it into practice without some cost.

Festo Kivengere

#28. Obyann, you're talking about the Landemere-Ramaldah border dispute of 1416. Damn it, man, that was in the time of our grandfathers.

Andrew Ashling

#29. Remind your council that the sins of the fathers aren't that of the sons.

Amelia Hutchins

#30. We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

Walter Isaacson

#31. I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

T.I.