Inherited Quotes

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"I inherited my father`s insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world".

- Anthony Kiedis

My dad saw my full package in The Pillow Book (1996) and said `I`m glad to see you inherited one of my major attributes`.

- Ewan McGregor

On the whole, I look like a combination of my mum and my dad. It`s difficult to pick out individual features, except when it comes to mouth and legs. I`m glad I inherited my dad`s lips. I guess I`d have liked to have inherited my mum`s gorgeous long legs. But, hey, I got my dad`s skinny ones instead.

- Elizabeth Jagger

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

- Chevy Chase

Being from a famous family is a blessing. I`m challenged to live up to the expectations. I`m happy, grateful for what I`ve inherited and excited about what I want to contribute.

- Janet Jackson

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.

- Lisa Marie Presley

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

- Angela Lansbury

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

- John Major

Of the three, Lorna is the one that inherited Judy`s musical talent. Roger Edens

- Lorna Luft

You didn`t have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

- Marian Wright Edelman

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

- Yasser Arafat

That`s what plays were about... smart people who did murders, or inherited lots of money or had love affairs or divorces or whatever.

- Timothy West

It`s very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it`s oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

- Mark Rydell

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

- Garry Kasparov

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

- Marcus Aurelius

(W)izarding ability is inherited in a mendelian fashion, with the wizard allele (W) being recessive to the muggle allele (M).

- Harry Potter

I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn`t know very well. They didn`t know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.

- Al Shropshire

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation`s responsibility, that`s going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

- Alan Burton

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

- Alan Johnston

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that`s so striking is the whole area of politics.

- Alan Zemaitis

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

- Albert Sterner

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

- Alexander Lukashenko

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

- Allen Johnson

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

- Amanda Abel

I haven`t inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

- Amanda Anderson

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

- Andrei Krivtsov

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

- Andrew Levin

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.

- Andrew Stephens

Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really fucking dumb to me.

- Ashley Capps

We inherited a site with a large, bunker-like structure and made every attempt to weave it into the narrative of the project. The lower portion of the building, with its militaristic past, represents the first portion of Rabin`s life as a warrior. The upper portion of the building, with its mission of education, its expansive views, and symbolic dove`s wings, represents the diplomat and mediator that he became.

- Audrey Johnson

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

- Edward Steichen