Quotes About Lineage

My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies hold the memories of those who came before us, whether it is the features we inherit or a disposition that is etched into our soul.

the young Lord Smund, a man of impeccable lineage and immense fortune, a little over twenty but with all the talents of a precocious ten-year-old.

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.

And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents.

produced two sons, "an heir and a spare." (Two daughters, Julia and Agrippina

Her family was of obscure origin;

Cicero could not boast a long line of noble ancestors, as his colleagues and competitors constantly did

that four hundred years of careful in-breeding should amount to nothing more.

Actually, I do have a knack of pulling things off with a straight face, guess it runs in my family.

When you look back at the former Ring of Honor world champions, whether it be Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, Samoa Joe, Nigel McGuiness, the list goes on and on. These are the guys that built the lineage and importance of the Ring of Honor world championship.

I came from a long line of football players.

How could he deny the jewels of posterity within his loins?

still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides.

He had never known the Atreides grandfather whose name this child had taken.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

In the absence of the principle of hereditary rule

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

womb? . . . I mean . . . does your lineage

Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

My great-great-great-grandmother