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Quotes About Heir

Yes, I've never inherited a penny!
~ William Hague
He is a fool that makes his doctor his heir. #CVirusisfake
~ Proverb
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
C. Peter Wagner was the Donald McGavran professor of church growth at Fuller. He was considered to be the heir of McGavran, founder of the church growth movement. That movement essentially said, 'Whatever grows a church is good' and needs to be nurtured.
~ Anthea Butler
Monarchs have a great weakness, however, for their own sons, no matter how feckless and inept. A statistical study should be done across cultures assessing the relative frequency of the bizarre outcomes to which monarchical succession is prone: failure to provide an heir or successor, provision of an heir completely inept, or division of rule among several incompatible ones. Orderly succession followed by a successful reign is the exception.
~ James J. O'Donnell
It is a grief to Sir Gervase, yes, that he has no son to inherit his name?
~ Agatha Christie
As colonial puppeteer and successful restorer of Russia as imperial superpower, Mr. Putin is Stalin's consummate heir.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
be honest, he sometimes felt a creeping impatience for his father to quit the scene, leaving John as his uncle's direct heir.
~ Julian Fellowes
In the Final Days shall come the Innocent Mage, born to save the world from blood and death. He shall enter the House of the Usurper He shall learn their ways He shall earn their love He shall lay down his life And Jervale's Heir shall know him, and guide him, and enlighten him not.
~ Karen Miller
If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .
~ Guru Nanak
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.
~ Norman O. Brown
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.
~ William Shakespeare
Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.
~ Georges Bataille
A monster, which hath not the shape of mankind, but in any part evidently bears the resemblance of the brute creation, hath no inheritable blood, and cannot be heir to any blood, albeit it be brought forth in marriage.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Nugent worried instead about his own mortality—about dying on a faraway battlefield without "leaving an heir behind to … represent me hereafter in the affairs of men.
~ David M. Oshinsky
I know I'm a Son of God, an heir of God, and a joint heir of Christ. I'm seated with him in the heavenlies, but by choice; like Paul, Peter and others, I've chosen to be a slave.
~ Bill Bright
Mike Pence is the hardest one to guess in 2020 as a leader, because I don't know if he is seen as the heir to the Donald Trump political movement or ig being the heir is a good thing.
~ Christopher Michael Cillizza
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
~ Publilius Syrus
One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?
~ Megan Whalen Turner
He's named you heir apparent to the Apocalypse. Congratulations.
~ Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule
The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.
~ Charles Dickens
Queene Elizabeth is my true mother and I am the lawfull heire to the throne. Finde the cypher storie my bookes containe. It tells great secrets, every one of which, if imparted openly, would forfeit my life. —F. Bacon.
~ Jason Fagone
I was told he could never go back, for he had shot his own grandfather out hunting and his family would impale him if he fell into their hands. Turks are never convinced by a hunting accident, especially if it is the heir who removes the owner of numerous flocks. All the same, Joseph was an honourable knight; perhaps his grandfather really did look like a deer.
~ Alfred Duggan
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
~ Tacitus