Quotes About Succession

Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

I am my own heir.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself.

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

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I am a warrior, that my son may be a merchant—and his son may be a poet.

I liked playing drums in the band, but the truth is, I always knew they were going to call Joey to play drums.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

From my words you will have reached the conclusion that the real Berenice is a temporal succession of different cities, alternately just and unjust. But what I wanted to warn you about is something else: all the future Berenices are already present in this instant, wrapped one within the other, confined, crammed, inextricable.

Il suo segreto è il modo in cui la vista scorre su figure che si succedono come in una partitura musicale nella quale non si può cambiare spostare nessuna nota

Almost immediately, my bruised eardrums were assaulted by another explosion, then another and a fourth. Five or six more barrels touched off in rapid succession. All I could think was thank God I was on the other side of the pillar.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

Russia is so feudal in its system of patronage and reward that it is virtually impossible for a leader to hand over power without controlling his successor or at least receiving an exemption from prosecution - something Mr. Putin granted his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, in 1999.

If someone was having some surgery that was going to put them out for three months, it's something you should consider, with a man or a woman. What is the impact of having the C.E.O. or visionary out for three months?

His eternity may be defined as that perfection of God whereby He is elevated above all temporal limits and all succession of moments, and possesses the whole of His existence in one indivisible present

A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.

History is the daughter of time.

Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

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