Ah, what he is; that is quite another thing. I have seen so many remarkable things in him, that if you would have me really say what I think, I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron's heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society.
Quotes about patrimony (12 Quotes)
I do not know why they are citing the economy and patrimony provision of the Constitution. I don't understand the connection between this provision and the EDSA celebration.
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
We were never meant to be the world's greatest debtor nation. We were never meant to have our ancestors' patrimony sold to the highest foreign bidder.
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.
It is indispensable that today's Europe safeguard its patrimony of values and recognize that the force able to promote, encourage and consolidate them is above all Christianity.
One thing that has struck me so far about the presidential election is how much it's a father-son story, which I think is very telling, because so much of the men's crisis is that they feel there's nothing being handed down, that there's no patrimony,
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.
This is the greatest damage to and loss of cultural institutions and cultural patrimony in the history of the country.
A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.
It's a way of helping people to learn more about the great patrimony of Catholic music that's been largely neglected by the church since the Second Vatican Council.