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Quotes About Successor

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.
~ Billy Graham
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.
~ John Bunyan
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
~ John Bunyan
Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.
~ Michael Beschloss
I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
~ George W. Bush
A former Hollywood actor and a senior citizen when he first took the oath of office, Reagan was a revolutionary in many significant ways, but not necessarily in the fashion one might expect. His two terms, and the term of his successor as well, might well be described as the greatest chasm between image and reality that this country has ever witnessed.
~ John Kenneth Muir
That the Pape is not the successour of Petir, but whare he said, "Go behynd me, Sathan.
~ John Knox
Hadrian's successor Antoninus Pius ruled for twenty-three years, nor did he undertake any expedition other than the visiting of his estates in Campania, averring that the entourage of an emperor, even one over frugal, was a burdensome thing to the provinces. SCRIPTOTES HISTORIAE AUGUSTAE, ANTONINUS PIUS, 7. 4–12.
~ Elizabeth Speller
Therefore there is one body and one head of this one and only church, namely Christ and Christ's vicar, Peter and Peter's successor." Pope Boniface VIII had written this three years earlier in 1302, and it was that claim of papal sovereignty over Christendom that was the source of all the trouble.
~ Arthur Herman
Cristiano left the bar very high at Real Madrid. You cannot cover the sun with a finger.
~ Keylor Navas
I had to follow Bobby Robson at Barcelona. He had won three titles.
~ Louis van Gaal
Like this week." "So you're Carl's replacement?" "I guess you could say that.
~ Stephen Dobyns
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
~ Eric S. Raymond
And what did Boris Yeltsin himself know about his soon-to-be-anointed successor? He knew this was one of the few men who had remained loyal to him.
~ Masha Gessen
His successor was a tall, lanky youth, who with his pallid complexion and huge red hands had the air of a simpleton. He was punctual at least, arriving at six o'clock on the dot, but his uncleanliness was revolting: he was dressed in kitchen rags stiff with grease and dirt, his cheeks were smeared with flour and soot, and from his unwiped nose two rivulets of green snot streamed around his mouth.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
You're never going to replace Jeff Gordon at all.
~ Chase Elliott
When I joined Chelsea, I had to replace Petr Cech. I still talk to him today; he's a friend.
~ Thibaut Courtois
I often think about what my replacement will do after I'm fired. She won't have emotional commitments to decisions that I already regret.
~ Glenn Kelman
Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
I've got a tough act to follow.
~ Scott Caan
1) 0 is a number. (2) The successor of any number is a number. (3) No two numbers have the same successor. (page 6) (4) 0 is not the successor of any number. (5) Any property which belongs to 0, and also to the successor of every number which has the property, belongs to all numbers.
~ Bertrand Russell
It remains to define successor. Given any number n, let ? be a class which has n members, and let x be a term which is not a member of ?. Then the class consisting of ? with x added on will have n+1 members.
~ Bertrand Russell
The key to our problem lies in mathematical induction. It will be remembered that, in Chapter I., this was the fifth of the five primitive propositions which we laid down about the natural numbers. It stated that any property which belongs to 0, and to the successor of any number which has the property, belongs to all the natural numbers. This was then presented as a principle, but we shall now adopt it as a definition.
~ Bertrand Russell
children had children, and his oldest son, Jack, would succeed him as the tribe's Head Man. (Jack Red Cloud would in turn be succeeded by his son James; his son, Chief Oliver Red Cloud, died at ninety-three on July 4, 2013, 110 years to the day after his great-grandfather stepped down as chief.)
~ Bob Drury