Heir Quotations

Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances.

I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

She's been kind of the heir apparent, I think, ever since she got here freshman year.

He could have been the heir apparent to (Michael Jordan) and maybe won as many championships. He may still win a championship or two, but the boyish hero image has been replaced by that of a callous gun for hire.

President Bush, up until last year, retained strong Republican support and was viewed as the ideological heir to Ronald Reagan. Since last summer, that support has steadily eroded ... Indeed many Republicans appear to be looking beyond the Bush administration and do not identify themselves as Bush Republicans but rather as Reagan Republicans.

Punishment of a miser - to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb

Our embassy officials have been in contact with the injured and t heir families. We are offering every assistance we can to them at this time.

They didn't like the unknown of not knowing who would follow on, ... There was no heir apparent.

It's something they've never tried on with the British media. There's been quite an effort, and it's a question of who's doing whom a favor, to be honest - whether it's the Americans doing the royals and the British tourism industry a favor, or whether we're doing you a favor by sending you the heir to our throne.

It's something they've never tried on with the British media, ... There's been quite an effort, and it's a question of who's doing whom a favor, to be honest - whether it's the Americans doing the royals and the British tourism industry a favor, or whether we're doing you a favor by sending you the heir to our throne.

There was always someone ready to cut the heir with a knife

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

The lack of an heir apparent meant that nobody was interested in the stock. At least now there is a catalyst for more upside than before.

In organizing itself I see a tremendous increase in the reinventing of the labor movement as the heir of the civil rights movement. I think it's the recasting of the labor movement in a way that I haven't seen in many years.

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

He proved that it can be done without causing civil strife and he paved the way for his heir to go on with it.

For the first time in 25 years, you truly have a wide-open seat without an heir apparent.

Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, / What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?