Bequeath Quotes

Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us? I know you will cry with me, NEVER! NEVER! - Tecumseh

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

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

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

The Cincinnatus of the West, / Whom envy dared not hate, / Bequeathed the name of Washington, / To make man blush there was but one! - Lord Byron

Sometimes, as in the Annenberg collection, gifts are in the form of artwork, or land, or some other piece of property whose value isn't as clear-cut as cash. In cases like those, the bequeathed amount is a best guess by experts. - Michael Solomon

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

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence. - James Joyce

Mr. Oppenheimer played a seminal role in the industrialization of South Africa over a period spanning most of the 20th century, ... Through his work, he bequeathed to our country not only an industrial empire spanning the length and breadth of South Africa, but also major legacies in the fields of education, the arts and community development. - Thabo Mbeki

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