Quotes About Parentage

You bastard!" Wax shouted toward the box. "Now, now," the box said. "That's patently false, Waxillium. You have a very clear understanding of my parentage.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

This is Masher,' said Feeney. 'His father was a wild boar, his mother was surprised.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, your mother

It's in me alone that my parents forever mingle, sweetly, sourly, along separate sugar-phosphate backbones, the recipe for my essential self. I also blend John and Trudy in my daydreams—like every child of estranged parents, I long to remarry them, this base pair, and so unite my circumstances to my genome.

It is not to diffuse you that you were born of you your mother and father, it is to identify you...Walt Whitman

Fathers - half of anyone's life seemed to be about who fathered them.

If a cat lost her tail and then gave birth to tailless cats, the scientific thing to do would be to track down the father and see if he had a tail or not. There was no need to invoke acquired characters to explain why musk ox have thick fur. Natural selection favored individuals that, for whatever reason, had warmer coats that made them less likely to freeze to death.

I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.

The beggarly question of parentage...what is it after all? What does it matter,when you come to think of it, wheter a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am?

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

My father Baldev Pathak was a Punjabi, and mother, Dina Pathak, a Kathiawadi Gujarati.

Dan Fox. (Son of Dan Brown and Paula Fox).

Jaime," she said, tugging on his ear, "sweetling, I have known you since you were a babe at Joanna's breast. You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and there's some of Kevan in you, else you would not wear that cloak . . . but Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

Thy wish was father to that thought.

Wait, wait, wait." V waved his hand-rolled around. "I'm the son of a deity and she picked you?

I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently from them. I am myself, Twinkle Khanna. I am proud of being the daughter of such illustrious parents, but I would not like to be compared with them time and again.

Whose little boy are you?

A child, she reasoned, does not pick its parents nor the circumstances of its birth. A