Heirs Quotes - Page 2

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.

If you're a wealthy heir with a trust fund, and you sell stocks, make your 10% gains since Donald Trump, and then you buy other stocks, you can avoid paying taxes. And if your accountant registers your wealth offshore in a Panamanian fund, like Russian kleptocrats do - and as more and more Americans do - you don't have to pay any tax at all, because it's not American income, it's foreign income in an enclave without an income tax.

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

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.

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

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

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

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

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

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

Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

We are the heirs of the ages

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

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)

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

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.

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

Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself.

The rich don't have children; they have heirs.