Quotes About Lineage

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.

It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.

Dowered with great historic names which they almost despise, they do their best to drag the memory of their ancient lineage into dishonour by vulgar passions, low tastes, and a scorn as well as lack of true intelligence. Let us not talk of them. The English aristocracy was once a magnificent tree, but its broad boughs are fallen,--lopped off and turned into saleable timber,--and there is but a decaying stump of it left.

If you are easily offended by direct aspersions on your lineage, the circumstances of your birth, your sexuality, your appearance, the mention of your parents possibly commingling with livestock, then the world of professional cooking is not for you.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Genealogy was her favorite insanity.

For obvious reasons the Catholic aristocracy was heavily intermarried.

for nobility is excellence of race.

But Christ granted to his beloved friend, and without a doubt all those of his spiritual lineage, to come to him without degradation, defilement or distress, but in joy, purity and uninterrupted sweetness.

From the Niflung lineage came Gjuki.

From the Ylfing lineage came Eirik the Eloquent.

Skelfir was a warrior king whose lineage is called the Skilfings, who hold sway in the eastern regions.

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. —Victor Hugo

MZ twins are as closely related to their nieces and nephews as they are to their own children.

Blood calls to blood. Like to like.

And he said, "It is not that Eleazar knows more Torah than I do but that he is descended from greater men than I am. Happy is the person whose ancestors have gained merit for him. Happy is the person who has a 'peg' on which to hang.

I am from a rebel blood line.

In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

I'm your father's mother's father's mother.' 'Oh, dear! I can't understand that,' said the princess. 'I dare say not. I didn't expect you would. But that's no reason why I shouldn't say it.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.