Top 327 Inherit Quotes & Sayings

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

I did not inherit a single dime from my father.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

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

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.

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

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

My grandmother has a great aesthetic sense. Unfortunately I didn't inherit it.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

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

I have faith in the pendulum swinging. Right now it's so far against the wall that it can't go any farther; it's gonna start to swing back. That's my optimism. One of the cures is gonna be getting the American people to fully wake up. All the American people, particularly young people, because they're gonna inherit this earth; they're gonna inherit what we're doing.

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.

Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or violent, they inherit an even stronger biological bias for kindness, compassion, cooperation, love and nurture - especially toward those in need. This inbuilt ethical sense is a biological feature of our species.

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

There's a lot of psychological material that you inherit from your family.

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

And the meek shall inherit the earth.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

The geeks shall inherit the earth.

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

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

The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.

The meek shall inherit the earth, but they'll never increase market share.

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

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

I think that I did inherit a very expressive face from my mother and my grandmother.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

Whatever good there is in the world I inherit from the courage and work of those who went before me. I, in turn, have a responsibility to make things better for those who will inherit the earth from me.

As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.

For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

The geeks shall inherit the earth - I've always said that.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

The charming shall inherit the Earth.

I have children, so I'm constantly worrying about the world they are going to inherit.

I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

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

Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni

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

What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments.