Ancestor Quote by Aaron Hill

Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

— Peter Drucker

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

— J. G. Holland

But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference…

— Robert Benchley

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for…

— Bernard Baruch

Why should it be thought incredible that the same soul should inhabit in succession an indefinite number of moral bodies? Even during this one…

— Francis Bowen

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that…

— Walter Murch

There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need…

— Noel Tichy

Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from…

— Lon Milo DuQuette

Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like…

— Joseph Sobran

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

— Voltaire