Predecessor Quotes

45 quotes by 44 authors

Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead… — Buzz Aldrin
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. — Martin Van Buren
It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other… — John F. Kennedy
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of… — Charles Babbage
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment,… — Ernest Starling
Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and in vocations are… — Pope Benedict XVI
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. — Baltasar Gracian
I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best… — William Howard Taft
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the… — M. King Hubbert
Among the various supplications with which we successfully appeal to the Virgin Mother of God, the Holy Rosary without doubt occupies a special and distinct… — Pope Pius XI
On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I… — Martin Van Buren
The Saints are Louisiana's team and have been since the late '60s when my predecessor Pete Rozelle welcomed them to the league as New Orleans'… — Paul Tagliabue
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor. — Haile Selassie
I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has enriched and strengthened… — Pope Francis
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W.… — Barack Obama
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding. — Robert M. Pirsig

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