logo

Quotes About Heir

Zack, who has a penchant for arcane knowledge, informs Ava that a family of a boy followed by a girl is known as the king's choice. There is the son to carry on the family name, and the daughter to marry off and create a dynasty.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Is that why they're squabbling over her? They're trying to marry an heir to the throne? I'm sorry, Tristen, but that's like some medieval play.
~ Elizabeth Bear
George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
~ Nancy Gibbs
suppose that I have to go somewhere, since my pleasant retreat has been destroyed. Perhaps, ipso facto, pursuant to the circumstances, I may accompany this potential heir-designate until further information is forthcoming one way or another." "Pleasant retreat!" said Arthur. "That was a prison—you…you were supposed to break out of it and do your duty. Let the Will be done, my foot!
~ Garth Nix
The Queen made a great fuss of her future daughter-in-law, trying to demonstrate that she was interested in Diana for her personal qualities and not just for what she represented, as the wife of the heir to the throne.
~ Ingrid Seward
The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
~ Finn Jones
My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
In such families as his, when such results have been achieved, it is generally understood that matters shall be put right by an heiress. It has become an institution, like primogeniture, and is almost as serviceable for maintaining the proper order of things.
~ Anthony Trollope
Catholics could not in theory inherit property – giving rise to the unpleasant possibility of one member of the family declaring adherence to the official Protestant religion of the State, and demanding to inherit property otherwise destined for a Catholic heir.
~ Antonia Fraser
You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine.
~ Henri Nouwen
The title of the elder branch falling at length to him, he obtained an important embassy, which served as an excuse for hastening the marriage
~ John William Polidori
Dowry doesn't rhyme with many words, so I had to rhyme dowry and peach tree [...] My nephew will inherit the estate, but the orchards are unentailed and will go to you.
~ Eloisa James
I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.
~ Princess Margaret
Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.' Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested in her brother,' objected the Captain.
~ Georgette Heyer
Birdie is the Nargis heir! Birdie is the princella. Oh, Waters! I made the princella clean our chicken coop!
~ Sarah Kozloff
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." So you are no longer a slave, but God's child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. (Gal. 4:4–7 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
heir did go to America, with the Fairfax heir or about the same time—but disappeared—somewhere in the wilds of Virginia, got married, end began to breed savages for the Claimant
~ Mark Twain
Certainly, all of us at Callahan's were heir to the tradition of the B-movie — and the A-movie for that matter — that any female who enters your life in a dramatic manner must be your fated love.
~ Spider Robinson
Legitimate brothers were all too likely to go to war over an inheritance. Bastards had to hitch their fortunes to the king and his designated heir, and many kings produced them with abandon.
~ Stephanie Coontz
frame Jewish modernity. After having been its cradle, Europe became its tomb and its heir.
~ Enzo Traverso
And he felt that his son, as the heir apparent, ought especially to behave himself to set an example for the nation. But the way his son behaved seemed to express a wish for England's ruin, and father and son became bitterly estranged.
~ Eric Metaxas
On the seven worlds where the Siren once played a role For each fragment my heir must pay a toll To once again make the Siren whole
~ Ernest Cline
After all, I'd just won the contest to become his sole heir.
~ Ernest Cline