Quotes About Estate

I'm having my portrait painted, for example, so that will be then put up at Longleat and hopefully stay here for a long time. You become part of a long line that goes back and will hopefully continue. That's what you want. You just want the house to survive, and you do everything you can to maintain it, look after it and support.

The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late '60s, the film rights.

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads

What's your enterprise of choice? Vane grinned. Hops. Patience blinked. Hops? A vital ingredient used to flavor and clarify beers. I own Pembury Manor, an estate near Tunbridge in Kent. And you grow hops? Vane's smile teased. As well as apples, pears, cherries, and cob nuts. Drawing back in her saddle, Patience stared at him. You're a farmer! One brown brow rose. Among other things. Recognizing the glint in his eyes, she swallowed a humph.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.

I'm a kid from housing estate in Glasgow.

'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides to embark on a more worldly lifestyle - it's about adolescence 10 years too late. In my dreams, everybody is watching it, finding out about my world and realising it's not what they imagined. That it's not terrifying.

Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

Life on a large estate for a single gentleman can become very lonely.

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads.

PROPERTY" GENERALLY      A. General definition: A person may be said to hold a property interest, in the broadest sense, if he has any right which the law will protect against infringement by others.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

A free man has two things thoroughly his own, his body and his land.

Men who have a thirty-six-televised-football-games-a-week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

Something Daito had left to me in his will.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

I don't like the repeal of the estate tax.

First of all, yes, you can certainly leave money to the people and causes you care about—but the truth is that those people and causes would be better off getting your wealth sooner rather than later. Why wait until after you die?

We lived in this ghetto during the worst excesses of the Seventies. When the tartan gangs came to wreck our estate, we had to defend it. We were barricaded in with diggers and earth-movers. It wasn't a case of joining the Republican cause, or the IRA - we were fighting for our very existence.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Be it then known that I was born on the family Estate in Devonshire, of the 10th day of August, 1690 (or in the new Gregorian Stile of Reckoning, the 20th of August)