Heir Quotes

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

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

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

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.

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

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

[On a windy Friday afternoon, James Crowe, 40, an heir to a tire manufacturing fortune, offered a real estate cruise aboard his Sea Ray runabout.] See that boathouse? ... It's owned by some American worth $700 million, and nobody here knows or cares.

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

African-Americans know I spent part of my childhood in public housing, I am a natural heir of the Reagan revolution.

Everything that's gone on with Princess Masako has revolved around the heir question. There you have an instance of sexism; the crown prince's role in this lack of heir is so often kind of forgotten.

This case is about politics, political opinion and the role of the heir to the throne in relation to these issues.

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

What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends.