Sins Of The Fathers Quotes

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

Euripides

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

Amelia Hutchins

#4. 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

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

Cassandra Clare

#6. 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

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

Diana Gabaldon

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

T.I.

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Horace

#20. 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

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

James Geary

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

Sri Chinmoy

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

Quintus Curtius Rufus

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

Joey Logano

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Ljupka Cvetanova

#28. 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

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

Thomas Pynchon

#30. 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

#31. 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