Quotes About Lineage

It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not interested enough in other people and the ordinary doings of people. That is why the real historians of Africa had always been the grandmothers, who remembered the lineage and the stories that went with it.

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

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

There is a dim possibility that he is of the stock of the New England Lincolns, of Plymouth colony," he wrote, "but the noble science of heraldry is almost obsolete in this country, and none of Mr. Lincoln's family seems to have been aware of the preciousness of long pedigrees." Later, in the White House, Lincoln checked Howells's book out of the Library of Congress, in order to check

As a preacher myself, let me be blunt here. Preaching itself can easily become just a subtle form of entertainment. When I stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ, he is not going to ask me if I was a clever orator. He is not going to ask me how many books I wrote. He is only going to ask whether I continued in the line of men and women, starting way back in the time of Adam's grandchildren, who led others to call upon God.

They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.

Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.

I just like the lineage and the heritage and the fact that British dance music is still progressing. I'm from London; I love London, and I wouldn't know how else to show that love in musical terms. There's something about British stuff that's a bit faster, a bit harder-hitting. Just tough.

Trade protectionism has an American lineage dating back to the Founders; that lineage is distinct from white nationalism.

To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved one of the most precious losses of self-knowledge we've endured.

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

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

You can't choose who your brother is. You're born, and whoever is in your family is your family. That's your blood. That's the way it is.

I don't like the term 'dynasty.'

We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates

She was mined for the children in her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them.

Grandparents. It meant parents-of-the-parents, long ago.' 'Back and back and back?' Jonas began to laugh.

Jonas began to laugh. "So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

kin, not ancestors. Our main difference from

Dobrý lov vám vÅ¡em, kdo jste z mé krve

There is only one true legitimacy, and it's bestowed by love, not male lineage.

I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.