(114 quotes found)
“Our inheritance of well founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries can bestow.”
Contributed by: Dave Cohen
Winston Churchill
“I don't even look at those things. There were so many streaks that I inherited here, and Wisconsin. When I was at Wisconsin, there were so many streaks there, I kind of let them go in one ear, and out the other.”
Dick Bennett
“The commissioner emphasized to me that I inherited an organization that was inadequately structured and staffed, ... and that we must correct that to ensure the highest standards of team operations, including discipline, accountability, strong oversight and internal communications.”
Zygi Wilf
“Holdover applies in two situations. Under s260 Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act (TCGA) 1992 on a lifetime gift where inheritance tax is payable upfront - most commonly on a gift to a discretionary trust - the relief is available even where the gift to the discretionary trust is within the donor's nil rate band, that is, where no IHT is actually payable.”
Charles Hutton
“The best compliment I can give Blake is just to say that if I hadn't inherited him as the quarterback, he would have been a kid I would have recruited. I think he has all the tools to be very successful in our system.”
Terry Hoeppner
“The point is that Robert Hunter is a post-modern poet who takes fragments that he inherited from other sources and melds them into new stories, ... What David Dodd has done is the detective work in tracing where those fragments came from.”
Dennis McNally
“I think boomers have very high expectations of what they will inherit and perhaps unrealistic expectations.”
Daniel Fitzpatrick
“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.”
Karl Kraus
“Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.”
William Hazlitt
“We were very lucky to inherit her, as well as Beth (Boskovich) and Amy (Harris).”
Kathy Arendsen
