Inheriting

In this he would be quite wrong, but quite intelligible and quite sincere; an English aristocrat of the nineteenth century inheriting from the English aristocrats of the eighteenth century; whose views were simply those of Voltaire. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Let us now imagine a child inheriting from the mother a sensitive, nervous organization, and from the father a predisposition of morbid action, with a mind as sensitive to external influence as a daguerreotype-plate, brought suddenly from the warmth of a too-indulgent household to the arctic regularity and frozen stillness of the Farnsworth mansion. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Well what would you call inheriting the mother of all messes? ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's fun to note that people used to believe in inheriting acquired traits, aka Lamarckism (named for a French biologist who championed the idea: Link. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The proper patrimony of the ancient Church was, perhaps, rather the endowments which had been gifted to it; yet Knox, who abhorred the idea of inheriting anything from that old Church, took a share of that money, even from the State, with reluctance. ❋ A. Taylor Innes (N/A)

Have you entertained the idea of inheriting a fortune? ❋ Elliott O'Donnell (1918)

Fortunately, a new C++0x feature called inheriting constructors lets you delegate that task to the compiler. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I recall inheriting a few Run DMC tapes from my dad -- when I was five, he gave me a couple of cassettes, and one of them's a Digital Underground thing .... ❋ Unknown (2009)

For one thing, the idea of inheriting a family business is an American tradition older than the Constitution itself; the idea of inheriting the presidency would have made the Founding Fathers shit themselves. ❋ Allen Raymond With Ian Spiegelman (2008)

There is much talk about our children "inheriting" the federal deficit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How can you blame Bush for Obama "inheriting" deficits, when Obama has run up deficits 4-5 times as large? ❋ Unknown (2010)