Best Inherit The Wind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.”

Writing War Reason Play Whole Wind Inspired Aftermath Inherit The Wind

Author:Jerome Lawrence

“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!”

Men Ideas Water Greater Miracle Sticks Snakes Monument Parting Cathedrals Inherit The Wind

Author:Jerome Lawrence

“You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.”

Writing Trying Blow Verbs Nouns Inherit The Wind

Author:H. L. Mencken

“All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.”

Stills Standing Moved Relative Inaction Standing Still Inherit The Wind

Author:Jerome Lawrence

“Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.”

Stories Comfort Comfortable Inherit The Wind

Author:Finley Peter Dunne

“Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."”

“No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.”

Men World Should Home Hands Care Kids Taken Wind Raises Daddy Inherit The Wind

Book:Nigger

Source: Nigger

“Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.”

Basketball Dreamer Mediocre Being Me Inherit The Wind

Author:Rick Pitino

“How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?”

Knows Speak Do You Know Inherit The Wind

Author:Jack Lemmon

“I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.”

May Sides Bread Your Side Inherit The Wind

Author:Gene Kelly

“Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni”

Play Wonderful Wind Originals Inherit The Wind

Author:Tony Randall

“Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.”

Left Emptiness Overzealous Inherit The Wind

Book:Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century

Source: Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century

“The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.”

Men He Man Fool Inherit The Wind

Book:Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century

Source: Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century

“Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.”

Men Stills Apes Wrong Man Inherit The Wind

Author:Jerome Lawrence

“But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.”

Children Light Force Nations Forever Teacher Ignorance Wind Ordinary Shining Extraordinary Busy Mediocrity Good Work Mediocre Being Me Paraphrase Inherit The Wind Accomplishing Anything

Author:Rafe Esquith

“When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.”

School Found Teaching Wind Fundamentalist Inherit The Wind

Author:Dick York

“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.”

Ideas Greater Monument Cathedrals Inherit The Wind

Author:Clarence Darrow

“In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.”

Play Wind Intellectual Musical Instance Opera Inherit The Wind

Author:Jerome Lawrence