#inherit

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#democratic #i #i think #inherited #president

I spent my childhood and youth on the outskirts of the Alps, in a region that was largely spared the immediate effects of the so-called hostilities. At the end of the war I was just one year old, so I can hardly have any impressions of that period of destruction based on personal experience. Yet to this day, when I see photographs or documentary films dating from the war I feel as if I were its child, so to speak, as if those horrors I did not experience cast a shadow over me … I see pictures merging before my mind’s eye—paths through the fields, river meadows, and mountain pastures mingling with images of destruction—and oddly enough, it is the latter, not the now entirely unreal idylls of my early childhood, that make me feel rather as if I were coming home… ↗

— W.G. Sebald

#history #inheritance #war #dating

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#building #entailed #growing #growing up #had

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture. ↗

— Kate Millett

#culture #inherited #people #subject #who

Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#back #bigger #deeper #delano #depression

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. ↗

— Mark Strand

#either #exists #formal #i #i believe

I would rather make my name than inherit it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#inherit #make #name #rather #than

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm. ↗

— Gary Larson

#earth #even #inherit #lowly #message

Delaying giving as a strategy for future kingdom building is risky. We could hold on to assets out of fear of letting go or unwillingness to surrender control to the Lord. As long as money lies within our grasp, there's not only the danger that we'll lose the assets, but also that we'll change our minds or be seduced by the status, prestige, and recognition of controlling (or having our name attached to the distribution of) what belongs to God. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#donation #end-of-life-giving #inheritance #change

Eragon went to see the dragon for the first time since it had spoken to him. He approached apprehensively, aware now that it was an equal. "Eragon." "Is that all you can say?" he snapped. "Yes." His eyes widened at the unexpected reply, and he sat down roughly. Now it has a sense of humor. What next? ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#dragon #eragon #saphira #sarcasm #talk