Quotes of Inheritance - somelinesforyou

“ No legacy is so rich as honestly. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy. ”

- Mary Pickford

“ There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. ”

- Hodding Carter

“ The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Service is no heritage. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. ”

- John Ruskin

“ 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. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. ”

- Ruth E. Renkel

“ The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. ”

- George Brandes

“ They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity. ”

- Theodore L. Cuyler

“ Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. ”

- Luther Burbank

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

- Honore de Balzac

“ I just thought the Legacy Highway was more local. From a national standpoint, Katrina was a bigger story. But from a local standpoint, I think Legacy was a bigger story. ”

- Thomas Neil

“ The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. ”

- Nick Nuessle

“ Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. ”

- David Frum

“ The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square. ”

- Pat Robertson

“ People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. ”

- Peter Gay

“ It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to. ”

- Jack Anderson

“ We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage. ”

- Dan Miller

“ My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage. ”

- Gerald Ford

“ Our commitment to human rights, primarily of the individual, but also of our diverse ethnic and religious heritage for which we suffered, must be absolute. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ To go into the Hall of Fame, it continues the legacy of the Dallas Cowboys. ”

- Troy Aikman

“ I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. ”

- Greg Norman

“ People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays, men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. ”

- Louisa May Alcott

“ A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. ”

- Thomas Scott
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