Top 23 The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth Quotes

#1. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Don Marquis

#2. My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.

Allan Dare Pearce

#3. In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

Barbara Corcoran

#4. The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!

Mother Jones

#5. And the meek shall inherit the earth,

Geddy Lee

#6. The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

J. Paul Getty

#7. We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

#8. Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget:
The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.

Kelvin Mercer

#9. The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

Jackie Vernon

#10. The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. The age of the insect, he thinks. The meek truly shall inherit the earth.

Chuck Wendig

#12. Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?"
"Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me." He winked at the girls, who giggled and hid behind their hair.

Cassandra Clare

#13. Let the meek inherit the earth
they have it coming to them.

James Thurber

#14. The Good Book says that the meek shall inherit the earth and I expect that's probably the truth. I aint no freethinker, but I'll tell you what. I'm a long way from bein convinced that it's all that good a thing.

Cormac McCarthy

#15. Pride, I suppose, is the most treacherous of virtues. The Christians call it a sin, but no poet sings of men who have no pride. Christians say the meek will inherit the earth, but the meek inspire no songs.

Bernard Cornwell

#16. Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.

Roger Zelazny

#17. The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#18. And yet you're a knight. (Rowena)
Because I have seen the great evil that is done on this earth to those who can't fight for themselves. The meek only inherit the grave while the strong go on until someone stronger stops them. (Stryder)

Kinley MacGregor

#19. You know that passage in the Bible that says, "And the meek shall inherit the Earth"? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, "And the geek shall inherit the Earth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#20. I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

Maya Angelou

#21. The meek shall indeed inherit the earth. They have the power to act rationally instead of reacting emotionally.

David M. Butcher

#22. The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

Robin Williams

#23. If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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