Quotes About Lineage

If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has passed on its way to us, we should probably become fatalists in face of the apparently overwhelming evidence that there is nothing in us that has not come to us from, or at least through, the Family. Family portrait galleries are a striking confirmation of the persistence of characteristics which ultimately govern the fortunes of successive generations.

We are walking archives of ancestral wisdom.

I had no children and shall have none. There are moments when this troubles me, when I reflect that with me a line will end which has lasted since the beginning of humanity.

To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.

No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story—amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.

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

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

I united myself with my forefathers: the father, mother, and grandparents I loved. They and all my predecessors believed and lived, and they produced me.

Oblonsy was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going to be proud of your ancestry, why stop short at Prince Rurik and repudiate your oldest ancestor - the ape?

USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.

Perhaps I wasn't a child of God at all, but the daughter of a Frenchman.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.

That made him and Highhawk related on their less important paternal side.

Every HiveWing had at least a few black scales, inherited from their common ancestor, Clearsight,

Wang Lung, seeing them, was fit to burst with pride at this procession of his goodly sons, who were to continue after him the life of his body;

We see ourselves in every episode; we realize that it's possible to keep going and never give up. We feel devotion toward the lineage of people who have worked so hard to make it easier for us.

It was impossible for the daughter of Lady Liane Holmes-Aubrey Saint Martin and Keenan Saint Martin to go ignored.

inherited along with her dark good looks.

But if they are adopted there is no traitor blood issue

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

in the best society hardly anyone can be certain who their father is.