Quotes About Lineage

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

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

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

Ray,' I said, 'is everyone your cousin?' 'Well, I got ten uncles and aunts on my mother's side, and ten more on my father's. And one of my uncles had twenty-eight kids. I got a lot of cousins.

We share a common ancestor with chimps that is not shared by mandrills, we share a common ancestor with mandrills that is not shared by bushbabies, and on and on and on, to the ancestor we share with nematode worms that is not shared with oak trees.

Having so-called "blue-blood" does not automatically mean that person has class. It just means somewhere down the road someone in their family was once someone of note. It's been my experience that blue-bloods and real nobility and royalty never mix. (Or at least they do not mix well.)

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground.

And so do his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!His sisters and his cousins,Whom he reckons up by dozens,And his aunts!

The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.

For the first time in his life, he was resentful of the Duke's great elegance and average stature, his high lineage and incomputable wealth. Hitherto, these things had been too remote for envy.

I am Duke of Strathsporran and Cairngorm, Marquis of Sorby, and Earl Cairngorm, in the Peerage of Scotland.

some of our descendents

My name is Uhtred. I am the son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred and his father was also called Uhtred.

He believed that virtues are handed down through a man's loins! What nonsense! A

I'm not his man, Father. I'm Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don't marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth.

An hidalgo, Lieutenant, is a man who can trace his blood back to the old Christians of Spain. Pure blood, you understand, without a taint of Moor or Jew in it. I am hidalgo.' He said it with a simple

Morgan was high born herself. She was the first of the four bastards, three girls and a boy, fathered on Igraine of Gwynedd by High King Uther. Her brother was Arthur and

How awesome of God to purpose that Christ's royal lineage would come through His adoptive father. We shouldn't be surprised at the profound significance with which God views adoption. Ephesians 1:4–6 tells us something profound about God's view of adoption. It identifies us as the adopted children of God. In a peculiar kind of way, God the Father allowed His Son to be "adopted" into a family on earth so that we could be adopted into His family in heaven.

I'm one of 32 first cousins on my mom's side, and 25 of us are boys.

I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family.

All of my relatives on both sides of my family are from Allentown.

Gobartes the son of Artabazos

I didn't understand their lineage or their language, they had somehow communicated with me.

Many people nowadays have surnames that reveal their ancestors' fairy origins. Otherlander and Fairchild are two.