Estates Quotes

Unfortunately, Nicolas Sarkozy has contented himself with carrying out security policies for the chic districts, but has forgotten the housing estates. - Julien Dray

This has reduced the number of estates required to pay tax and the amount of taxes owed. But, despite these changes, appreciating land values and increasing farm size mean a larger share of farm estates are subject to the federal estate tax. - Jack King

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. - Derek Walcott

The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street. - Robert D. McFadden

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president. - Chris Van Hollen

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. - Thaddeus Stevens

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. - Alan Watts

People move to Riviera Estates for peace and quiet. And no kids. - Sharon Stewart