Inherit Quotations

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain. (Isaiah 57:13)

She was still a second-class daughter. She did not inherit any of his estate.

No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.

What you inherit may not be appropriate for you, but you can change that. It's a one-time free way to change the portfolio that meets your needs.

Here's this guy with a self-consciously bad haircut, but he's worth more than the GNP of many nations, ... With his success, it's become clear that geeks will inherit the earth.

It is also a time of inheritance, of awakening, and of commitment, in which we inherit the commitment of the A-bomb survivors to the abolition of nuclear weapons and realization of genuine world peace, awaken to our individual responsibilities, and recommit ourselves to take action.

I thought that the object of a business was to be noncompetitive. I told my father I wanted a change. He said to me I would inherit the company, but I replied that I didn't ask for it.

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.

Whoever the successor is, he will inherit a complex situation and serious credibility problem.

We've got the best part of six months in real terms - the first international after the World Cup is in August - but that will not be the way we play it. I hope the appointment won't be after the World Cup and there's no reason why it should be. We have the opportunity of appointing before the World Cup and the upside of that is they can watch the side they will inherit in August with a sense of semi-distant ownership, and it may well be an advantage.

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children

We were very lucky to inherit her, as well as Beth (Boskovich) and Amy (Harris).

When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: / Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

We have to do the best we can with the language and concepts we inherit and not worry about obtaining a truth that will satisfy everyone, everywhere, and for all time

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it form our children.

And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: / That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

It would take an awful lot to make me believe that I could do more good for the world Logan (his 7-year-old son) will inherit with another four years as governor rather than with what I'm doing privately.

Sometimes, it's a little bit of a double-edged sword. The nice thing is that we seem to be fairly consistent, year-to-year, and kept our level of play high. It can also be a little unfair to some of the kids. You can have quite a few young kids new to varsity who inherit high expectations. It can be a lot to take.

Our estate tax laws allow the heirs to inherit property with a new cost basis which is equal to the fair market value.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.

Somebody's going to inherit a gold mine. We've got a good nucleus here. This team will win next year.

Actually, I was surprised to be in front. I got the lead and was able to dictate the pace. I let her do her thing. We happened to inherit the lead today and she took to it very comfortably. She lived up to her name.

The money you inherit will come to you tax-free. Let that money be the money that funds education costs,

The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.

This Aug. 6 ... is a time of inheritance, of awakening, and of commitment, in which we inherit the commitment of the bomb victims to the abolition of nuclear weapons and realization of genuine world peace,

They get the best of both worlds -- they retain the employee owned culture and they inherit a liquid instrument that can sell at any time.

They'd inherit $500 billion and obviously have to go in with a fire ax,

There's always a fear of the unknown as to what liabilities the state might inherit for whatever reason,

Allowing same-sex couples to access one another's health care plans, make joint medical decisions, inherit one another's property, file joint tax returns, and provide for their children without fear of them falling into foster care should one partner pass away is not only humane but fiscally prudent,

It's less obvious what the challenge is when you inherit something that's very strong,

That's one mistake people make. It's sort of a back-of-mind issue. If you're not remarrying, you can put it in your child's name so you retain control but they will inherit it.

The biggest win you have to win is the locker room. ... And it's very difficult when you inherit a football team - you go someplace and all of a sudden these guys have got seven-year contracts and the coaches have got three.

Sure, I could die in this house. But I believe in the Resurrection, that the righteous shall inherit the Earth, and I hope to be among them.

It took hundreds of years for these woods to grow, and they leveled it in a week. It's gone. After they build new houses here, they'll have to widen the roads and put up gas stations, and pretty soon the whole area will just be a big strip. Eventually there won't be a nice spot left anywhere. I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

That said, I didn't inherit those kinds of guys at Kansas State. We've have different challenges. Some have been similar, but we've had different challenges.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

I'm not sure that the meek will inherit the earth. I don't know if it is the community I'm in or the lack of time we seem to have in today's world, but I often see aggressive people with no time for anybody and the desire to get ahead in the work force, with no regard to anyone else.

If you inherit a checking account with $82,000, then there is no step up in basis.

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.

By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

Children might inherit certain genes that incline them to interact with their environment in very 'stimulating' ways. This stimulation could then influence brain development. . . . What is less likely is the idea that we are born with a certain set of genes which 'fix' at birth our intelligence and the trajectory of our brain development.

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

The kids are out of the house, they're in their prime earning years, and they stand to inherit a huge amount of wealth.

You who inherit the heavy privilege to serve in freedom's name. You who must brace for battle surely to come.

All of these products will inherit WWF, like they do the .Net Framework today.

I don't think it's constructive to grow up having billions of dollars. . . . The idea that I will take a sizeable portion of my fortune and have them inherit that, I don't think that would be to society's benefit or to their benefit. I've spoken out about this before . . . my philosophy of giving back my wealth to society.

To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather