quotes about Heirs
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[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.
-- Alexander Herzen -
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
-- Andre Malraux -
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Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.
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Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.
-- Courtney MilanSource : Courtney Milan (2011). “Unveiled”, p.25, HQN Books
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What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.
-- Frances Osborne -
Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'
-- Gail Collins -
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The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.
-- George Elliott Clarke -
Philosophy ... finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.
-- Georges Bataille -
Don't be overly concerned about your heirs. Usually, unearned funds do them more harm than good.
-- Gerald M. Loeb -
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
-- Harvey CushingSource : The Medical Career and Other Papers 'Medicine at the
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Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
-- J. L. AustinSource : "Performativity". Book by James Loxley, p. 81, 2006.
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It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life -- without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Cineama, heir of alchemy, The last erotic science
-- Jim Morrison -
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We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
-- John F. Kennedy -
One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.
-- Jon Meacham -
Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!
-- Julia Caroline DorrSource : Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1892). “Poems”
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What do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls!
-- Kerstin GierSource : Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.15, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
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I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.
-- Mary Renault -
Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.
-- Michael Joseph OakeshottSource : Quoted in R S Peters (ed) TheConcept of Education (1966), ch.10, 'Learning and Teaching'.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.
-- Norman O. BrownSource : Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.240, Wesleyan University Press
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To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.
-- NostradamusSource : Nostradamus (2013). “The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
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Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself...
-- Philip Jose Farmer -
I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.
-- Princess MargaretSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.
-- Sam Wyly -
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She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.
-- Sarah J. MaasSource : Sarah J. Maas (2014). “Heir of Fire”, p.362, A&C Black
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Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs.
-- Spike Milligan -
Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.
-- Steve Saint -
Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years
-- Tony Elumelu -
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
-- Victor Hugo -
The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.
-- William Whewell -
Donald Trump has filed so many bankruptcies and busted so many companies that his children now have receding heir lines.
-- Michael R. Burch -
The rich don't have children; they have heirs.
-- Peter Charles NewmanSource : Peter Charles Newman (1983). “The establishment man: a portrait of power”, McClelland & Stewart
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Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
-- Roy Jenkins -
Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.
-- JosephusSource : Flavius Josephus (1970). “The Jewish War”, Penguin Classics