Quotes About Bloodline

For whatever reason, I made the Goblin Queen nervous. Kurag had proposed marriage once upon a time, but I think it was desire for sidhe magic in the goblin bloodline more than true desire for me. Oh, Kurag would fuck me if I'd let him, but that wasn't much of a compliment. Kurag would probably have fucked anything if it held still long enough.

Attainder was medieval England's great disincentive to treason. It was seen by many as a punishment equally dire as execution. As well as condemning the individual to a traitor's death, it condemned his bloodline to ruin by declaring all titles, property and estate held at the time of the treason forfeit to the crown. The

Each time he fought he fought to kill and the other bulls were not afraid of him because they came of good blood and were not afraid.

And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.

paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.

I don't have any angel blood, as far as I know.

But take him now, Regal, and shape him, and a decade hence you will command his loyalty. [...] A bastard, Regal, is a unique thing. Put a signet ring on his hand and send him forth, and you have created a diplomat no foreign ruler will dare to turn away. He may safely be sent where a prince of the blood may not be risked. Imagine the uses for one who is and yet is not of the royal bloodline. Hostage exchanges. Martial alliances. Quiet work. The diplomacy of the knife.

It was a dangerous world for women, and more dangerous for a woman whose very bloodline would have her do not as she was ordered, but as she pleased.

As he walked back to the neighbor's he realized that the magic tricks he'd taught himself were childish foolishness. What mattered was the blood that ran through him, the same blood that had flowed through Maria Owens. Once, when he'd cut himself in a tangle of brambles on the way to the lake, drops of his blood had burned through the fabric of his shirt. This was what bloodline magic was. It was inside him.

She had learned how to make elixirs for fevers and rashes and potions for love, and as it turned out, magic came back to her, not the bloodline magic she'd been born with, but the magic she made for herself. This was the fate she had chosen.

that four hundred years of careful in-breeding should amount to nothing more.

I don't think it's fair that you can say I'm not a Puerto Rican fighter because I wasn't born in Puerto Rico, when my blood is Puerto Rican.

I never really, really pushed my boys into boxing, but I guess it's in the blood.

still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides.

womb? . . . I mean . . . does your lineage

Passion has been in my DNA for generations.

The Russell side of my family is a clan with some serious genetics.

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.

I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by my mother and therefore beyond dispute. But as everybody else with a drop of Irish blood in his carcass is also a guaranteed descendant of the old billy goat, I am not overly arrogant because of this royal strain.

Manfred was the patriarch, and William was his son. William begat Gravier. Gravier begat Pops. And Pops, late in life when he and Sweetheart had despaired of having a child, begat Patsy. At age sixteen, Patsy gave birth to me and named me Tarquin Anthony Blackwood. As to my father, let me state now plainly and unequivocally that I don't have one. "Patsy

She was from the bloodline of kings. He was from the bloodline of killers.' (Carlos)

the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began ...

I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.

My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It's just in my blood.