#bequeath

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bequeathed #charities #essence #even #nothing

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek. ↗

— Jones Very

#bequeathed #converse #even #feel #greatness

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#bequeath #children #conserve #environment #generation

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ↗

— Plato

#bequeath #children #parents #reverence #riches

If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region. ↗

— Liam Fox

#arms race #becomes #bequeath #countries #egypt

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#bequeathed #blood #bones #bronze #capabilities

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed. ↗

— Julius Sterling Morton

#consumed #each #earth #exhausted #forests

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean But I shall be good health to you nonetheless And filter and fibre your blood. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#death #good-health #look #nature #universe