Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.
We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
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.
Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?
The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inher...
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!
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.
He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.
