Quotes About Dynasty

Don't be like my father Akhenaten

The sight of this place was overpowering, simply because it was abandoned. It had not been just a noble family who had lived here, but a dynasty of great rulers. The Palindrakes had been reduced horribly.

There have been many empires. None last forever.

The Leckerys are not fit consorts for people such as the Palindrakes, whereas we of the Malagash dynasty eminently are.

When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

The Rothschild brothers-Nathan, James, Amschel, Carl, and Salomon-comprised the world's largest private bank.

But Argos can do without the sons of Atreus.Ancient houses are not eternal.

Legalistically, you may appeal to the Emperor, but would get no hearing. The Emperor today is not the Emperor of an Entun dynasty, you know. Trantor, I am afraid, is in the hands of the aristocratic families, members of which compose the Commission of Public Safety. This is a development which is well predicted by psychohistory.

Pippin was crowned the first king of the Carolingian dynasty in the city of Soissons, in a brand-new sacred ceremony that involved anointing with holy oil in the manner of an Old Testament theocratic king.*

It was hardly their own shining abilities alone that allowed a son, two grandsons, and a son-in-law of Winston Churchill to make their way into parliament.

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.

One child is never enough for a monarch.

Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.

As he proceeded his voice became louder, and every word was breathlessly listened to. He spoke of the coming conquest of the group by Kamehameha, whom he designated as the son of Kahekili, and also as the lone one." He also predicted the early extinction of the Kamehameha dynasty, the domination of the white race, the destruction of the temples, and finally the gradual death of the Hawaiian people.

By the 11th century, after the fall of the Tang and as the rise of the Song dynasty led to new demand from China, Srivijaya's dominance of Southeast Asia was challenged from an unusual quarter, India.

Alexander did not name an heir to his empire. When asked on his deathbed, he cryptically replied, "To the strongest.

Let no man think that the fire of the Targaryens did not burn in his veins.

The Targaryens wed brothers and sisters for three hundred years to keep the blood line pure.

A man like Tywin Lannister comes but only once in a thousand years.

Sixteen Targaryens followed Aegon the Dragon to the Iron Throne, before the dynasty was at last toppled in Robert's Rebellion. They numbered amongst them wise men and foolish, cruel men and kind, good men and evil. Yet if the dragon kings are considered solely on the basis of their legacies, the laws and institutions and improvements they left behind, the name of King Aegon I belongs near the top of the list, in peace as well as war.

The King is dead! Long live the King!

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st, James 2nd, and the Old Pretender.

Heir and a spare and change.