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Letter "I" » inheritance
«There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| About:
Civilization,
History,
Tyranny,
War
| Keywords:
aggression, historic, imperfect, inheritance, refusal, situations
«Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.»
Author: Ruth E. Renkel
| Keywords:
inheritance, inheritances, leaves, poorest, richest| Occasions:
Father's day
«Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the propositionthat each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.»
Author: Charles Lindbergh
(Aviator)
| Keywords:
custodian, custodians, customs, inheritance, in turn, laws and customs, owner, proposition, The Absolute
«My 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»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Chance,
Country,
Giving,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
influential, inheritance, Land of Opportunity, My Country, owes, schooling, village
«Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.»
«Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; / And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; / Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.»
«I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? / For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? / Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? / Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? / If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; / Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Almighty, covenant, covenanted, covenants, deceit, inheritance, inheritances, iniquity, maid, portion, the Almighty, walked, weighed, workers
«Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, / Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Abraham, inhabit, inheritance, inheritances, inherited, Israel, Land of Israel, Son of, Son of man, The Land, wastes
«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.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
attribute, due to, effects, inherent, inheritance, inheritances, purity, successfully, surmount, surmounted, surmounting
«The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Environment
| Keywords:
Environments, inheritance, technological, technological innovation
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