Top 1200 Inherited Wealth Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they practise a magic inherited from savagery, but simply and solely because they have sense. They see at a glance what most men could not see with searchlights and telescopes.... They are the supreme realists of the race.

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

In order to understand the history of the banjo, and the history of bluegrass music, we need to move beyond the narrative we've inherited, beyond generalizations that bluegrass is mostly derived from a Scotch-Irish tradition with influences from Africa. It is actually a complex Creole music that comes from multiple cultures.

Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.

When you create wealth, it’s your responsibility to return it to society.

Globalization in the aggregate generates wealth, no question. But it gets concentrated.

Personal wealth is the by-product of making the world a better place.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.

Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

There's enough wealth in the world that no one should go without.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.

I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she'd eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens.

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.

Wealth is being generated off the back of oppression and abuse.

Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.

Physical wealth has not necessarily been very secure.

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.

Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

Nucleic acids are the main information-carrying molecules of the cell, and, by directing the process of protein synthesis, they determine the inherited characteristics of every living thing. The two main classes of nucleic acids are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA).

Although self-control is inheritable and does run in families and has a genetic component, it's more like height than anything else. Height is one of the most strongly inherited traits that human beings have and yet when we improve the nutrition of the population everybody gets taller. So you can shift the entire population by an effective intervention.

We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.

But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.