Quotes About Lineage

Gold runs in our blood.

And as it went on I set it against the background of that other talk, and as I matched the two together I had no doubt that one was the descendant, the legitimate heir of the other.

Consider me, Descended also From the Mystery.

I suppose you have already informed God that you will require at least three sons to ensure the Tremore line?

Hermes Trismegistus is the most famous Gnostic. He was the founder of the pre-Christian lineage of Greek Gnosticism.

Lady Fatima was chosen from all women to be the Mother source of Muhammad's lineage, the core of the generation of Muhammad. Through her, the progeny of the Prophet multiplies - through a woman.

How had it began? Like evrything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia's mother and father, because of her mother's and father's mothers and fathers.

How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia's mother and father, because of her mother's and father's mothers and fathers.

One of the problems of spiritual searching is that we tend to feel that we can help ourselves purely by reading a lot and practicing by ourselves, not associating ourselves with a particular lineage. Without a teacher to surrender to, without an object of devotion, we cannot free ourselves from spiritual materialism.

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors.

Das Blut allein macht lange noch den Vater nicht.

Every creature born in the flesh carried the genes of an ancestor who had lived through the most savage punishment this would could inflict.

Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself.

The soul is not a single unity; that is what it is destined to become, and that is what we call 'immortality'. Your soul is still composed of many 'selves', just as a colony of ants is composed of many single ants. You bear within you the spiritual remains of many thousand ancestors, the heads of your line.

Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.

Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage of ethnicity. Activists' constant stress on white privilege can lead to an unhealthy defensive posture of white victimhood.

So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to added complexity. Interracial amalgamation will produce some individuals whose features diverge from those commonly ascribed to the races of their ancestors.

Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

She was mined for the childrenin her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them.

Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.