Quotes About Lineage

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.

I am an offspring of the dead. I am descended from the deceased. I am the progeny of phantoms. My ancestors are the illustrious multitudes of the defunct, grand and innumerable. My lineage is longer than time. My name is written in embalming fluid in the book of death. A noble race is mine.

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.

virtue, as I have already remarked, is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual.

Her mother's voice began to hum to her softly, tunelessly. Jane whispered, "How did you come?" "I'm not out there anymore, Jane. I'm inside you now, and my mother is inside me, and her mother is inside her, all the way back. We're all here, just like those Russian dolls, one inside the other.

Lizette felt that since Belle Fleur was full of Black folks who looked white, numbers suggested that many whites could be Black. It was all a fine line in the South, she'd say. Given that those sinning, raping plantation owners had both white babies and Black babies, everyone was six degrees from being one or the other. Which was what scared southern white people the most.

It was all a fine line in the South, she'd say. Given that those sinning, raping plantation owners had both white babies and Black babies, everyone was six degrees from being one or the other. Which was what scared southern white people the most.

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

I'm, like, half Norwegian and half Italian.

raise them up, and watch them do the same thing, generation after generation, so that when you die you know you are permanently a part of the great web of life. That you are not a loose thread, snipped off.

The world of our fathers resides within us. Ten thousand generations and more. A form without a history has no power to perpetuate itself. What has no past can have no future.

And of course it's true that any number of these books were penned in lieu of burning down the world—which was their author's true desire. But the real question is are we few the last of a lineage? Will children yet to come harbor a longing for a thing they cannot even name?

Our ancestors move along with us, in underground rivers and springs too deep for chaos to reach.

It is important for children to learn that they are the sum of those who have come before them.

Family tradition and genealogical history, upon which much of Sir Everard's discourse turned, is the very reverse of amber, which, itself a valuable substance, usually includes flies, straws, and other trifles; whereas these studies, being themselves very insignificant and trifling, do nevertheless serve to perpetuate a great deal of what is rare and valuable in ancient manners, and to record many curious and minute facts which could have been preserved and conveyed through no other medium.

Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period.

Although victimism can trace its lineage to liberalism, it is not itself liberalism. Nor is it updated Christianity. It militates against ideas of equity, fairness, and process; its natural tone is one of assertion of prerogatives, a demand for reparations.

I come from a long line of generations!

On the green they watched their sons Playing till too dark to see, As their fathers watched them once, As my father once watched me...

children are the carriers of whatever has been left unresolved from the generations that went before.

It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.