Top 182 Heir Quotes & Sayings

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

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

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

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

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

There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.

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

Annabel looked down. Her hands were shaking. She couldn't do this. Not yet. She couldn't face the man she'd kissed who happened to be the heir to the man she didn't want to kiss but whos she probably was going to marry. Oh yes, and she could not forget that if she did marry the man she didn't want to kiss, she was likely to provide him with a new heir, thus cutting off the man she did want to kiss.

What do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls!

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)

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?

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

THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.

If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to.

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

I am privileged to be the heir to huge wealth, and I regard myself as a custodian of that money for the benefit of people who need it more than I do.

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.

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

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

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

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.

Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was the senior direct lineal heir of James Stuart, the Old Pretender of 1715. Had there been any Jacobites left in Britain in 1916, they would have had to regard this south German prince as their rightful king.

Mike Pence is the hardest one to guess in 2020 as a leader, because I don't know if he is seen as the heir to the Donald Trump political movement or ig being the heir is a good thing.

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

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

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

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

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

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

When it comes to the Sunnis and Shiites, it is not for the United States or for us or for anyone else to settle who was the heir of Muhammad. This is a Muslim and Arab problem, and they have to deal with it.

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.

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

Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

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

To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

As colonial puppeteer and successful restorer of Russia as imperial superpower, Mr. Putin is Stalin's consummate heir.

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.

Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

I know I'm a Son of God, an heir of God, and a joint heir of Christ. I'm seated with him in the heavenlies, but by choice; like Paul, Peter and others, I've chosen to be a slave.

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a world-famous leader.

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

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

I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.

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

Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

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

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

She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.

One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

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

The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

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