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Quotes About Succession

In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Like they say: one window pane goes, another comes in its place.
~ Sholem Aleichem
If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
O genera?ie nu r?scump?r? pe cea dinaintea ei
~ Sofocle
The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.
~ George Will
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
~ John Quincy Adams
With his partner gone, Hastings lost his momentum. In 1920, he retired as an active member of the firm.1 The beneficiaries were Shreve and Lamb.
~ John Tauranac
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
A pragmatic leader's core job is not just to create more followers. Rather, it should be to create more leaders i.e. those who will take over from him/her. That's the way/what it should be.
~ Emeasoba George
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.
~ Emil Cioran
The best mode of comprehending the nature of the two Governments, is to look at a country in which the two have within a comparatively short space of years succeeded each other.
~ bagehot walter xix
Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well
~ Barbara Bush
Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!
~ Barbara Pierce Bush
principle, formulated for the occasion, that "a woman does not succeed to the throne of France." Thus was born the momentous Salic "Law" that was to create a permanent bar to the succession of women where none had existed before.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.
~ John Carter Cash
Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
~ Osman Rashid
When I was a kid, the guy who was Intercontinental champion was the guy who was next in line for the World Heavyweight championship.
~ Christian Cage
I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.
~ Princess Margaret
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors ... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
~ George Orwell
A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors.
~ George Orwell
Nixon became the first (and to date, only) former Vice President to be elected President (every other Vice President who moved into the Presidency either succeeded upon his predecessor's death, or won election directly from the Vice Presidency).
~ George Washington