Quotes About Succession

Authority is all very well, but no man should assume that he'll automatically be gifted with it because of his birth. Wisdom, not birth, qualifies a man to rule. The people of Kish may have mourned because their king Etana was childless.

THE WHOLE LIFE IS A SUCCESSION OF DREAMS; MY AMBITION IS TO BE A CONSCIOUS DREAMER, THATS ALL.

I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking of a chick with a white shag rug taking over his space.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

Like father, like son, four years and this president is done.

Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!

It was hardly their own shining abilities alone that allowed a son, two grandsons, and a son-in-law of Winston Churchill to make their way into parliament.

The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

You are not the first and you will not be the last

the trouble with the famous is that they must be replaced and they can never quite be replaced, and that gives us this unique sadness.

In the classic successional course, each suite of plants replaces its predecessor, until the arrival of the final, "climax" ecosystem, usually tall forest.

One child is never enough for a monarch.

Monk's gone, and House is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king. Yes. Unorthodox.

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

Assuming they're really Albert's sons, they're the present earl's first

Queen you shall be, until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.

The battle proved a victory—at least in part—and soon after, his grandfather finally died, and Ser Elmo became Lord of Riverrun. But he did not long enjoy his station; he died on the march forty-nine days later, leaving his young son, Ser Kermit, to succeed him.

The new-made Lord Quenton had two strong sons and a plump grandson to assure the succession, but as his first wife had been carried off by spotted fever three years earlier, he further agreed to take one of Lord Tully's daughters as his bride.

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.