Quotes About Parentage

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

I never knew my father, my mother was an ape

You can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy.

Very good, Jason Grace, Notus said. You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy.

You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

That wasn't your mom in you—that was your dad.

I wouldn't want to do a 'Maury Povich' show. Baby daddy! Who's your daddy? Who's your mama? I wouldn't want to do that kind of show.

La plupart des femmes obtiennent leur belle apparence de la mère, à moins que le papa se trouve être un chirurgien plastique.

I have seven brothers and sisters, and I'm the only one who looks white because my mother has had children by all black men, and then my father has children with other women as well.

If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

I believe you know my quest from its beginning to its end, and that I seed to learn my parentage. Parentage? said Orddu. Nothing easier. Choose any parents you please. Since none of you has ever known each other, what difference can it possibly make - to them or to you? Believe what you like. You'll be surprised how comforting it is.

My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

People don't rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage. The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.

Success has many fathers.

Est un être humain tout être né de deux êtres humains

Adults were always quick to tell her how much she looked like her mother, and how little like her father. Though Anna thought that on the inside she was much more like him. There was this strong, unbreakable will in her to fight for something, somwhere. But where? for what? and against whom?

Let me tell you something, I'm a big believer, when it comes to quarterbacks and point guards: Who's your dad? Who's your dad?

Sure, to an extent it's true that I probably would be just some random girl on Instagram if wasn't for my parents and I am fully aware of that.

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

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