Quotes About Lineage

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

My husband is half Japanese and half white European-American, and our son is half Korean, quarter Japanese, and a quarter white European-American.

I like to call myself as son of famous father and father of famous son.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family.

The yoke of my birth

there is no one thing which men so rarely do, whatever the provocation or inducement, as to bequeath patrimonial property away from their own blood.

I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that natural selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

But that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species.

where the Coffins had lived ever since Noah's flood (if, indeed, they had not merely returned thither after that temporary displacement)

Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors....

Ethnically I am a mix of many, many, many things.

One child is never enough for a monarch.

This [for opposition leaders to claim royal lineage], in a world ruled by a republic, was what revolution had come to mean.

While he may forget that he is Caesar, I never forget that I am Caesar's daughter.

Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.

A legacy is worth protecting.

Most family trees have

My father is Lester Liu. - Oona

Assuming they're really Albert's sons, they're the present earl's first

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.