Inherit Quotes

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've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

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?

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

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

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

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

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.