The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
- Isadora DuncanWe are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
- Ethel WatersI feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I`ve assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?
- Wynton MarsalisThe United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
- Pope John Paul III have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
- Mohandas K. GandhiThe human`s place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
- Walter GilbertWherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
- Karel CapekMy country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
- Herbert HooverStrong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
- Henry Cabot LodgeBeware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
- Henry Cabot Lodge"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation '“ enlightened as it is '“ if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams
- Sam AdamsAfter all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
- Edward HopperProperty left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.
- Agnes AllenThe stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
- Alex KippSay not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
- Alice RossiNever say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
- Alice RossiThe estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
- Amarri JacksonThe legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
- Benjamin DisraeliBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David ThoreauThe best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
- M. GrundlerA son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair
- Niccolo MachiavelliExperiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
- Karl Kraus