Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Simmons

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

Jean Anouilh

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

George Herbert

Service is no Inheritance.

J. I. Packer

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

Margaret Sanger

Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

James A. Garfield

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Karel Capek

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Juvenal

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

Juvenal

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Betty Shabazz

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

Benjamin Franklin

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

William Shakespeare

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

Jean de la Bruyere

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Princess Margaret

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

Oliver Goldsmith

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

George Herbert

I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]

Brian Eno

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

George Best

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

Bill Kelly

Wow, all I can say is it's a fabulous contribution. If I knew I wouldn't tell you, but I would go and thank her personally.

Denny Green

Tony is a fabulous coach, ... He was ready for his head job. I just think it's all about opportunity.

Grace Corrigan

She left a fabulous legacy. It's making people feel good about themselves, making kids feel they're important, making teachers be proud of themselves.

Dan Campbell

She threw a fabulous game -- I'm very pleased with the way she threw. She showed me a lot. She's a competitor, but she really showed me a lot.

Philip Dick

The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

Greg Murtha

We had a fabulous morning. It was knee-deep to waist-deep powder.

Kimora Lee Simmons

It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It's about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.