Quotes About Succession

But by the time of Edward's succession in 899, Ecgwynn had either died or been discarded,

Alchfrith was King Oswiu's eldest son, and a king in his own right

immersed in a seemingly never-ending stream of thoughts, coming willy-nilly one after another in rapid succession.

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

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

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.

When my father ran for the state Assembly, the headline said, 'Kean's Son to Run for Assembly.' When my grandfather first ran for Congress, it was 'Kean's son to run for Congress.'

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals 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.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

You'll never succeed if you have no will to encounter failures along the road to succession.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Succession to a name is sad like all successions and seems like an usurpation; and the uninterrupted stream of new Princesses de Guermantes would flow until the millennium, the name held from age to age by different women would always be that of one living Princesse de Guermantes, a name that ignored death, that was indifferent to change and heartaches and which would close over those who had worn it like the sea in its serene and immemorial placidity.

Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events that go before are soon covered by those that come after.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

One cat just leads to another.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

Recruit for the future not just for the gap.

Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.