Heirs Quotes · Page 8

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can…

— Raul Castro

It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology…

— Peter Medawar

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

— J. L. Austin

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

— Victor Hugo

Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a…

— Lewis Carroll

A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir.…

— Martial

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

— Gary North

Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief…

— Stewart Udall

Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

— Stephen Sondheim

Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal,…

— Lester R. Brown

When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in…

— Bill Bryson

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch,…

— Jon Meacham

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Without the proper care, there's no beauty. Without beauty, there's no boyfriend.

— Lee Bo-na

I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my…

— Anonymous

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

— William Shakespeare

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so…

— Barbara Tuchman

War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither…

— Nellie L. McClung

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heir loom tomatoes, and…

— Helen Mirren

One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim."…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the…

— Benazir Bhutto

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a…

— Charles Caleb Colton