#inherited

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#choice #inherited #kind #parent #parents

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift. ↗

— Mavis Gallant

#began #done #dream #father #fear

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#given #had #inherited #many #me

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

— Mark Udall

#borrowing #children #earth #haven #i

All my children inherited perfect pitch. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#children #inherited #perfect #pitch

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

#clothed #flesh #human #human nature #inherited

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#before #british #british empire #cabinet #canada

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors. ↗

— Cole Younger

#being #born #county #fighters #i

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#directly #fragile #humanity #infinitely #inherited

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. ↗

— Miguel Indurain

#always #bad #bad weather #calm #farmer