Successors Quotes · Page 5

It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed…

— George B. Cortelyou

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and…

— James A. Garfield

I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor…

— Masayoshi Son

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

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be…

— Abraham Lincoln

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but…

— Simon Schama

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels…

— C. S. Lewis

At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind.…

— Jean Piaget

I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you…

— Steve Jobs

To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the…

— Margaret Thatcher

I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are…

— Thomas Jefferson

Well, Lula has an incredible amount of sway still. He's someone who came up from very humble origins, so his life trajectory…

— Simon Romero

In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one…

— John Desmond Bernal

Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we…

— Mark McMorris

Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don't be consumed by the job or you'll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring…

— Donald Rumsfeld

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions…

— Margaret Visser

If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously.…

— Gregory Palamas

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

— Claude Debussy

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing…

— Samuel Johnson

You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" -…

— Bob Hawke

Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to…

— Pope Leo XIII

Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may…

— Lord Byron

I don't want to interfere with my successor's presidency.

— George W. Bush