Top 75 Inherit Quotes

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.

I actually have grandkids. I’m at that age. And with all the things that go on in our country, I sometimes wonder what sort of world they’re going to inherit?

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature – he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It’s a skill.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

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

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room – and we have to become sensitive to it.

No one’s death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to it.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it’s worth trying to know where things come from.

It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

Authentic power is the real deal. You can’t inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can’t lose it. You don’t need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

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.

I don’t believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

I didn’t inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I’m crazy fortunate.

At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.

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

I’m a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I’m making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn’t sing. It’s an intellectual play.

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.

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

I did not inherit a single dime from my father.

Many years ago, when I was born in the ’50s – ’50s and ’60s didn’t belong to girls in India. They belonged to boys. They belonged to boys who would join business and inherit business from parents, and girls would be dolled up to get married.

It’s an honour to be able to wear the No.5 jersey and that Carles Puyol thought of me to inherit it.

It’s never a straightforward thing to do, to be able to inherit a squad. When you’re mid-season it’s never easy to get a team or a squad of players to function exactly the way you want them to.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

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.

There may be left-wing or liberal solutions to our deeper problems. But an elite that tries to manage them away with more enlightened media curation deserves to inherit nothing but the wind.

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

This is the big question that we all have about our children: How much, how soon, do we tell our children the less comfortable facts about the world they’re going to inherit?

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

I think what you inherit is not real. I haven’t inherited anything. What I have is really mine because I made it myself.

My father used to say I would inherit his house but not his seat.

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It’s alarming.

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

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.

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.

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.

Millennials – who will soon be a full one-third of American adults – may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don’t inherit an economic collapse.

I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn’t need an inheritance – the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life – and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.

Because the world we live in is more dangerous than our parents’ was, and our children are set to inherit a world more dangerous than ours, Congress must get right our mandated mission to provide for the common defense of our country.

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

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

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

The children of politicians learn the allure and tricks of politics along with their alphabet. They inherit a network of useful contacts, and – if they’re lucky – a name that confers instant voter recognition.

I don’t think I should ask my kids to inherit my business, because they can’t start where I did: I was from the street. I’m a very different make of person. I’ve been a fighter all my life.

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

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

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

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

Getting home-made food cooked by mom is a blessing. I feel I inherit my creativity through the food she cooks for me.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as ‘beauty.’

The No. 9, a team’s centre forward, is a number that means a lot and, God willing, I hope to inherit it some day.

Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win it. Freedom holds us accountable no matter the disadvantages we inherit from the past.

Our young people desperately want the chance to participate in and lead our nation’s economic and cultural revival. They’re up for the challenges that they’re going to inherit. It only remains for us to present the path to address them.

The only sense marriage makes is to share property, your children inherit the name and all that… it is all legal reasons to get married and no reason for love.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.