Heirs Quotations

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

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

Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

Philosophy ... finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.

What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware.

Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

Well, I should like a plan that doesn’t result in the death of my heir. (Eli) Would a good maiming be considered over-the-top? (Varyk)

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs.

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.

The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.

It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life -- without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

We are the heirs of the ages

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

Cineama, heir of alchemy, The last erotic science

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.