Quotes About Lineage

Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.

Est un être humain tout être né de deux êtres humains

These women were Jesus' great-grandmothers!

out of the following lineage and circumstances: from the seed of the woman (any possible man).

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.

Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yetIn his own worth.

For the entire course of evolution leading from our primitive mammalian forebears of a hundred million years ago to the single lineage that threaded its way to become the first Homo sapiens, the total number of individuals it required might have been one hundred billion. Unknowingly, they all lived and died for us. (21)

Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

Most people aren't Republicans four generations down from a president.

I take the sporting genes from my dad.

The Russell side of my family is a clan with some serious genetics.

Genealogical trees do not flourish among slaves.

The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.

To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully preserved oral history, much of which I have been able conventionally to corroborate with documents.

I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.

I'm a junior, so my dad's name is Thomas Rhett Akins as well. So literally, from the day I was born, it was Thomas Rhett. It wasn't Thomas or Rhett, it was Thomas Rhett.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Kulas were created mainly to maintain a clear genetic pathway through generations. Through this connection, they created runanubandha on the physical and genetic level as well. Kulas were maintained and sustained primarily by creating Kula Devatas, or the deity for the kula.

For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not for doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality. He moved in an inner world that was more beautiful than Georgia and came back to reality with reluctance!

Manfred was the patriarch, and William was his son. William begat Gravier. Gravier begat Pops. And Pops, late in life when he and Sweetheart had despaired of having a child, begat Patsy. At age sixteen, Patsy gave birth to me and named me Tarquin Anthony Blackwood. As to my father, let me state now plainly and unequivocally that I don't have one. "Patsy