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Quotes About Estate

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.
~ Robert Walpole
even without access to Caesar's estate, Octavian had large sums of money at his disposal.
~ Anthony Everitt
a great mansion with stone figures on the terrace and seven figures in the price.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Stath Lets Flats' at its heart is a character comedy show about a family-run estate agents, but it's inspired by a real family!
~ Natasia Demetriou
Krishna Raj is being made into 17-18 floors, and all the floors will be with Rishi's family; it's not for sale.
~ Randhir Kapoor
A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white maples over against the ha-ha a quarter of a mile from the house so that the contrast seen from the ball-room windows should be agreeable—in thirty years' time? In those days thought, in families, went in periods of thirty years, owner gravely consulting heir who should see that development of light and shade that the owner never would.
~ Ford Madox Ford
The robin was tremendously busy. He was very much pleased to see gardening begun on his own estate. He had often wondered at Ben Weatherstaff. Where gardening is done all sorts of delightful things to eat are turned up with the soil. Now here was this new kind of creature who was not half Ben's size and yet had had the sense to come into his garden and begin at once.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
The robin was tremendously busy. He was very much pleased to see gardening begun on his own estate. He had often wondered at Ben Weatherstaff. Where gardening is done all sorts of delightful things to eat are turned up with the soil. Now here was this new kind of creature who was not half Ben's size and yet had had the sense to come into his garden and begin at once.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Not until after supper were the Hardys able to drive out to the Batter estate. The high, gabled mansion loomed starkly against the sky, silvered by moonlight. A broken porch rail and dark, blank windows gave it a sinister look. "Spooky-looking layout," Joe muttered. "It's a cinch no one's taking care of the place.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
I've always been into music. I used to DJ. I used to mix reggae and that. I used to be into reggae hard. Well first it was rap, then reggae, then rap again, then rap and reggae. But I was always DJing out my window for the whole estate. Everyone used to sit outside and all and listen. And I used to be running rhythms in that.
~ Giggs
When I first moved out to L.A. to be an actor, this family knew that I was a pretty big athlete back in Texas, and they said, 'You can live in our house for free if you coach our kid in football, basketball, and lacrosse.' So I was coaching all these sports teams, and I got to live at this house in Bel Air - this nine-acre estate - for free.
~ Glen Powell
The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
~ Felix Dennis
the image her father liked to present of a famous estate in perfect working order, a famous family without blemish or trouble.
~ Roland Merullo
I think that when a somebody dies, there ought to be a process where everything about them, like bills and taxes, stops. They don´t even slow down. As a matter of fact, they seem to come quicker and louder.
~ Ron McLarty
the palace of the Saggese family, once the great landowner of those parts. An archway
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
~ Andy Warhol
the best way to reduce paying estate taxes is to give your assets away before they appreciate.
~ Sam Walton
ACRE  (A'CRE)   n.s.[Æcre, Sax.] A quantity of land containing in length forty perches, and four in breadth, or four thousand eight hundred and forty square yards.Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land [to] run away or break.
~ John Adams
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,Fallen from his high estate,And welt'ring in his blood;Deserted, at his utmost need,By those his former bounty fed,On the bare earth expos'd he lies,With not a friend to close his eyes.
~ John Dryden
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
~ John Dryden
I grew up on an estate in Manchester and people I've known from school have died in gang trouble and I always thought, if I'd been on a different estate at a different time, it could have been me.
~ Wunmi Mosaku
Of course I miss the big gardens we had at our country house but it became very expensive to run we couldn't afford it.
~ Princess Michael of Kent
You can take the girl out of the estate, but you can't take the estate out of the girl.
~ Emily Thornberry