Quotes About Succession

And now the King is dead. Who knows who will replace him? Voting for a monarch! Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Looked at with the benefit of hindsight, his life, which at time had felt like a series of ingenious escapes, resembled rather more closely a succession of nooses, most of them self-tied. The self-tied ones will still hang you, though.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. —John Adams

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

From his mother, Philip inherited the Burgundian possessions. But a few years after Philip's marriage, his wife Joanna, daughter of Isabella and Ferdinand, inherited not only Castile, but Aragon, Sicily, Naples, America, and the Indies. So when Charles V came of age, he inherited from his father, his mother, and his grandparents a great empire. He was, at once, prince of the Netherlands, king of a united Spain, and emperor of Germany.

He would accept the legacy, avenge his "father"'s death, and succeed to Caesar's power.

It was not long before Pisistratus fell from grace again. The problem was the arrangement with Megacles. He did not want to imperil the succession of his legitimate sons by new rivals, so, to avert the risks of pregnancy, he avoided ordinary sexual intercourse with his new wife and penetrated her up the anus.

Caesar's heir was now ready to pounce. Both consulships were vacant

produced two sons, "an heir and a spare." (Two daughters, Julia and Agrippina

When you have a coach-in-waiting, it puts question marks into how long you're going to coach.

I am the person who is going to take over boxing after Floyd Mayweather.

I was blessed to have followed a legendary coach in Chuck Noll.

I think it's quite difficult to follow in your parent's footsteps in the same sport.

The leadership group I had to follow is very easy to walk in their footsteps and try to be like them. You try and set that same example for the guys coming up.

I have to continue until there's another Filipino following in my footsteps.

A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.

When the founders retire, it's always difficult for the second generation and third generation.

The Baron could see the path ahead of him. One day, a Harkonnen would be Emperor. Not himself, and no spawn of his loins. But a Harkonnen. Not this Rabban he'd summoned, of course. But