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When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black. — Charlotte Bronte

I see you inherited your father's temper," Darrow sneered. "Is this how you plan to rule? When you don't like someone, you'll threaten them? — Sarah J. Maas

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does. — Stephen Sondheim

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited! — Terence McKenna

I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do. — John Raese

I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out. — Raquel Welch

The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

My father always made an amazing meatloaf, and I've inherited his skill. Leftover meatloaf in a sandwich? Come on! — Elizabeth Banks

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. — Buzz Aldrin

Inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons. — Eckhart Tolle

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies — George W. Bush

Yes, I've never inherited a penny! — William Hague

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. — Henry Ward Beecher

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. — Camille Paglia

There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty. — John F. Kennedy

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being. — Silvano Arieti

Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level. — Randy Pausch

Those black eyebrows! Oh, what if her baby inherited those eyebrows? She'd have to get a special brush. — Maggie Robinson

They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead. — Colum McCann

Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. — Stella Gibbons

They'd never really been my friends; I didn't cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband. — Jeff VanderMeer

a species used to strict patterns of inherited hierarchy. — David Brin

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it. — Max De Pree

One thing I incorporated in my novel 'The Poe Shadow' was the little-known fact that documents show Poe inherited a slave and decided to free him. — Matthew Pearl

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited. — Rupert Holmes

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God. — Martin Luther

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z'ed up. — John Green

I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted ... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director. — Marlon Wayans

Their skin hung loose over their bodies like suits they had inherited from larger ancestors, with the trousers ridiculously baggy. — Roald Dahl

How much of me is inherited, and how much is my own creation? — Isaac Marion

No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited. — Tom Northup

The parents may be one of the best indications of the future temperament of your new puppy. A surprising amount of behavior is inherited. — Anonymous

... we whose task is wakefulness itself have inherited all the strength which has been cultivated by the struggle against this error. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them. — Pastor Maldonado

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation. — Mary McCarthy

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect. — Andrew Thomas

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. — John Chrysostom

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt. — Tony Blair

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes. — Ludwig Von Mises

Nothing has to be accepted just because we inherited it. — Deepak Chopra

As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system. — Andrew Lansley

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. — Michael Crichton

Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century. — Nick Harkaway

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room. — Madeleine Albright

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times. — Al Jarreau

I never really had any God at all, just an imagined one, an inherited ghost. — Erik Fosnes Hansen

I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens. — Tony Goldwyn

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument. — John Mortimer

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon. — Richard Neal

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift. — Chris Evert

What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians? — Robert Orben

I'd once overheard my daddy tell my momma that the six Winston boys had inherited their father's ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women. — Penny Reid

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

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. — F Scott Fitzgerald

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her. — Robin McLeavy

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer. — Norman Mailer

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm. — C. Wright Mills

Satan's inquisitiveness would eventually be inherited by the offspring of Adam and Eve. The inquisitiveness was the original sin. — Tomichan Matheikal

I inherited curiosity from my Dad. — Tom Clancy

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world. — Anthony Kiedis

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it. — Richie Havens

The dogmatic radicals who assail "on principle" the inherited social notions and distinctions are not serving civilization. Society — William Graham Sumner

My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it. — Chevy Chase

Only those who believed what God had promised them inherited the Promised Land — Sunday Adelaja

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it. — Laurence J. Peter

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis. — T. Boone Pickens

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts ... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them. — Timothy Keller

We've got to stand up not only for free speech, but also for all that we've inherited from the Enlightenment and from Christianity. — Roger Scruton

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children. — Mark Udall

If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side. — China Machado

Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior. — Katie Couric

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine - inherited, along with dangly earlobes and a horror of deep water. — Tanya Moir

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality. — Joe Biden

People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents. — Justin Trudeau

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited. — Brian Dennehy

I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother. — Aerin Lauder

Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects,acquired,inherited..) — Ikechukwu Joseph

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Beat spokesman, surprisingly, seemed to be satisfied with the ethics that we have inherited. — Paul Goodman

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer. — Brian Eno

His mother hated his father. Perhaps being hated by your wife was something he inherited. — James Fant

My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes. — Allison Williams

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits. — J. Philippe Rushton

Since emotional intelligence is learned rather than inherited, it can be improved. — Lynn Clark

Success and cynicism are not only achieved; they are also inherited. — Aldous Huxley

But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. You are a leader, Eva Nine. A hero. And you are my WondLa -Rovender — Tony DiTerlizzi

In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession. — George W. Bush

Nick inherited me. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. — Liza Minnelli

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it. — Christine Gregoire

Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose. — Eric Haney

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly. — Arthur C. Clarke

When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise. — Jeffrey Lurie

You will not be able to effectively utilize your inherited wealth if you do not work diligently — Sunday Adelaja

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. — Thomas Merton