Top 622 Inherited Quotes & Sayings

Nothing has to be accepted just because we inherited it.

I feel like he inherited one of the worst economies than any president has ever, ever inherited. I have met Mr. Obama, President Obama. I supported him in his first campaign, and I feel that he deserves four more years to finish up the job that he started.

To be honest, I inherited a mess.ISIS has spread like cancer - another mess I inherited.

I don't like inherited wealth.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

What I have inherited from my father is my passion for my work which is my music.

I inherited my dad's sense of humor and work ethic.

I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

I made my money the old-fashioned way, I inherited it.

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young...there is no mastery, old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature...Its a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

My mom is a big scaredy cat, and I inherited that from her.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

Yes, I've never inherited a penny!

I guess I'm dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life.

My administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. To be honest, I inherited a mess.

I may not have inherited wealth, but I have some inherited humility.

People say I inherited my feisty attitude on the cricket pitch from my dad, but he and I might disagree. The most useful trait I've inherited from my mother is to make sure that I'm always organised.

Instead of promoting inherited wealth for the few, I want to tackle inherited disadvantage for the many.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

I don't know anything about bankrupting four companies. Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan.

Every president inherits difficult problems. George W. Bush inherited eight years of a failed foreign policy and did nothing about the growing threat of Islamic terrorism, except a one-time lob of a cruise missile into the desert at a camp that had long been abandoned. George Bush inherited that, and 9-11 was the result of that. Every president inherits problems. Harry Truman inherited a war. Stop blaming the person before you and go forward and take leadership and deal with the problem.

Who's, like, inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in our lives?

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.

Yes, Obama took over two wars from Bush - just as President Richard Nixon inherited Vietnam from President Lyndon Johnson and President Dwight Eisenhower inherited Korea from President Harry Truman. But at least the war in Iraq was all but won by 2009, thanks largely to the very surge Obama had opposed as a senator.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

Character isn't inherited.

Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.

Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

I've inherited the quality of understanding good music from my father.

My dad was a big grinder, a tough guy. I inherited that from him.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.

You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it.

At Knopf, everything is inherited.

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

We inherited a national debt that has doubled in eight years. Think of it - $20 trillion. It's doubled. And we inherited a foreign policy marked by one disaster after another. We don't win anymore. When was the last time we won? Did we win a war? Do we win anything? Do we win anything? We're going to win. We're going to win big, folks. We're going to start winning again, believe me.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

I have inherited pace from my dad, and in terms of the physical side with the balance, I have inherited that from my mum.

I inherited my 1960s copy of 'French Provincial Cooking' by Elizabeth David from my mother Gabrielle, who in turn inherited it from her mother Frances. It was my bible when I first moved to Paris aged 26.

What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.