Quotes About Lineage

I always had my roots in the past.

My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.

I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything.

Every American who checks the spiritual-but-not-religious box or shuffles off to a meditation retreat is squarely in the Transcendentalist lineage. A surprising number of the people I interviewed, when recalling the origins of their interest in Eastern philosophy, named Emerson or Thoreau as a catalyst.

The true sons of Abraham are not identified biologically, but Christologically.

I come from a long line of forever people. We are forever. Here at the bottom of heaven we live in the circle. We back and gone and back again.

I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.

I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.

There was no arguing with blood.

My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons.

A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world...

The bloodlines from the Mayflower hadn't trickled down to this zip code.

A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world, Doctor?

We only have to go back a few dozen centuries to see that most of the 7 billion of us alive today are descended from a tiny handful of people, the population of a village.

most recent common ancestor of everyone alive today on Earth lived only around 3,400 years ago.

Genetics can certainly tell us who our closest relatives really are, and can reveal so many mysteries of our deep past. But you have far less in common with your ancestors than you may realize, and there are people in your family from whom you have inherited no genes at all, and who therefore have no meaningful genetic link to you, even though in a genealogical sense you are most definitely descended from them.

But you have far less in common with your ancestors than you may realize, and there are people in your family from whom you have inherited no genes at all, and who therefore have no meaningful genetic link to you, even though in a genealogical sense you are most definitely descended from them.

on a long enough timeline we're all inbred.

everyone alive of European descent would be able to select a line that would cross everyone else's around the time of Richard II.

Pedigree is a word derived from the middle French phrase pied de grue—the crane's foot—as the digits and hallux spread from a single joint at the bottom of the tibia, roughly equivalent to our ankle. This branching describes one or a few generations of a family tree

One fifth of people alive a millennium ago in Europe are the ancestors of no one alive today. Their lines of descent petered out at some point, when they or one of their progeny did not leave any of their own.