Quotes About Lineage

What's your heritage, anyway?" I said irritably, backing away, putting more space between us. He regarded me blankly, looking startled by the personal question, and as if he lacked a frame of reference for one.

People talk about heredity as if it's linear and vertical. Dead people pass things "down" to the young.

Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying

We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

Count Andrea Sperelli-Fieschi of Ugenta, the sole heir, continued the family tradition. He was, in truth, the ideal type of young Italian gentleman of the nineteenth century, the legitimate defender of a lineage of gentlemen and elegant artists, the last descendant of an intellectual race. He was, as it were, completely impregnated with art.

This vision gave one new piece of information they had not heard before. Enoch had been told that there was a Chosen Seed to come from the line of Seth, through Enoch, Methuselah, and Lamech, one who would bring an end to the reign of the gods and bring rest from the curse of the land. Everyone recognized the reference from their time with Adam and Havah. It was the seed of the Woman, Eve, at war with the seed of the Serpent, Nachash.

On his marriage to Princess Michael, an Austrian Roman Catholic, Prince Michael gave up his place but, in reality, it was merely a gesture as there was virtually no chance of him ever becoming King as he moved further and further down the line.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

to someone in the next generation. There is transgenerational transmission—something is passed on to the next generation.

Our DNA does not fade like an ancient parchment; it does not rust in the ground like the sword of a warrior long dead. It is not eroded by wind or rain, nor reduced to ruin by fire and earthquake. It is the traveller from an ancient land who lives within us all.

I have in my hand the end of the thread which connects me to my ancestral mother way at the back. I pull on the thread and one woman's face in every generation feeling the tug, looks up at me.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you... And people who come before your time affect you as well. We move through places everyday that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time - we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.

Fathers - half of anyone's life seemed to be about who fathered them.

Get off this estate. What for? Because it's mine. Where did you get it? From my father. Where did he get it? From his father. And where did he get it? He fought for it. Well, I'll fight you for it.

Our own lineage split off from that of chimpanzees roughly seven million years ago.

In the 1400s, people began to use a new word to define a group of animals that shared the same blood: a race.

He bore that cold and vaguely condescending smile of career servants who, as the years go by, start to believe that their masters' lineage has tinged their own blood blue and granted them the privilege of looking down on others.

My grandfather, who is English, was a member of a gentleman's club called the Caledonian, which you can only be a member of if you have Scottish lineage.

I come from a lineage of ministers.

Our spiritual ancestors have also given birth to us, and they, tol, continue to give birth to us.

Kathleen G. Nadeau