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Quotes About Parentage

Is Jensen really your name? she asked when he sat down again, closing the knife and tucking it back into his pocket. Does it matter? I've used any number of names. Jensen, Davidson, Wilson, Madsen. In other words your mother didn't know who your father was.
~ Anne Stuart
Look at his hair. He looks like his father. (Cassandra) He has your lungs. (Wulf) Oh, please! (Cassandra) Trust me. Every Apollite here knows that my parents were unmarried at my birth, and that if you survive the night, you plan on making me a eunuch. (Wulf)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Simone's mother was an unfortunate mistake. Palackas, Simone's father, was a bound demon who stumbled across her one night while he was carrying out an order for his master. One thing led to another…he inserted part A into slot B, and he fell in love with her... (Jaden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.
~ Tracee Ellis Ross
The golfing champion went on to state that as a child he'd invented the term, "Cablinasian" to describe his parents multi-ethnicity and nationality—a mix of half Asian (Chinese and Thai), one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American and one-eighth Dutch.
~ John Iceland
Aristotle, we must remember, was a doctor's son.
~ Arthur Herman
My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.
~ Dree Hemingway
A word, for example, that is negative, pejorative, and has caused more pain and suffering is 'illegitimate.' But every person has a mother and father. It is another way we let society hurt others.
~ Alex Haley
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
~ Samuel Butler
I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.
~ Eartha Kitt
I guess I want very much to be recognized for my abilities, for the work I put in, and yet it's still always there - who my parents were. As much as I love my parents, if that was the last thing ever said about me - that I was their daughter - I would be disappointed that my contributions weren't strong enough on their own.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
Your father is your f-father regardless, Agnes. Birth and b-breeding do not always depend upon small matters like who provided the seed.
~ Mary Balogh
Lagrange's father, once Treasurer of War for Sardinia, married Marie-Thérèse Gros, the only daughter of a wealthy physician of Cambiano, by whom he had eleven children. Of this numerous brood only the youngest, Joseph-Louis, born on January 25, 1736, survived beyond infancy.
~ Eric Temple Bell
Next time," Lionblaze muttered, "I'll check who my parents are before I'm born.
~ Erin Hunter
This was all news to us lower ranks who, while we'd theoretically known Seawoll had parents, had always assumed that he'd been assembled in a factory somewhere outside Wakefield.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
elbowed Danny. "You think Shields is the father of that baby?
~ Greg Iles
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
~ Beth Ditto
The son of a human is human, just as the son of a dog is a dog and the son of a cat is a cat. And so what is the son of God?
~ Bart D. Ehrman
I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.
~ Christopher Eccleston
I really hate it when people ask me who my icons are. When your parents are Bianca and Mick, you don't really need any more icons in your life.
~ Jade Jagger
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
~ Beth Ditto
I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
~ Frances Bean Cobain
Your ma was a leech with bad teeth," she taunted. Onua laughed in spite of herself. "Your da was a peahen. I know chickens with more brains than you!
~ Tamora Pierce
My name is an Italian name because my father is an Italian and my mother is Indian.
~ Dino Morea