Heir Quotes

118 quotes by 104 authors

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for… — Benazir Bhutto
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker. — Charles Caleb Colton
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who… — Edward Kennedy
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under… — John Milton
As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to… — Honore de Balzac
You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the… — Eminem
I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my… — Joan Oliver i Sallares
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy… — Seneca the Younger
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. — Tacitus
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings. — Charles Dickens
Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to… — George Washington
If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not… — Tom Regan
He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir. — Benjamin Franklin
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on… — Terri Runnels
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless… — Andre Breton
My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all,… — Margaret Cavendish
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. — Victor Hugo
...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as… — Robert McNamara

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