Quotes About Lineage

The foundation of the Germanic system was blood and kin.

ten or twelve men, especially between brothers and between fathers and sons; but the offspring of these unions are counted as the children of the man with whom a particular woman cohabited first.

I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

If your parents didn't have any children, there is a good chance that you won't have any.

Every plant and animal cell on the planet is the result of an unbroken biological lineage going back to the beginning of all life. And even that beginning had another beginning. The Earth, the Sun, the Moon: all have ancestors. Even our universe—the mother of a hundred billion galaxies—must surely have had a mother and father of her own.

When God binds Himself to being our God, then at the same time He binds Himself to be the God of our seed. With His grace He follows the line of the generations. He executes election along the route and pathway of the covenant. As Father of all mercies He walks the path that He Himself, as Father of everything, has drawn.

Family name and paternity are two different things, but but one must start somewhere.

The living result of the queen's labors is the diminutive Mary—not really a whole princess, perhaps two-thirds of one.

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.

The drumbeat in your blood is the voice of your ancestors. Let the drum speak.

Meet Madeleine Cahill," he said. "Founder of the Madrigal line.

I have English blood running through my veins!

Of course, there was Lily Anne, the living extension of all that is Me, my DNA shipment into the future. And

I do have a built-in advantage,' said Giles. 'I am my father's son.

This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of respect in America ad Europe, this symbol of heritage and lineage, would be ridiculed in India. Within Bengali families, individual names are sacred, inviolable. They are not meant to be inherited or shared.

He was born in 1741, a descendant of the Rhode Island equivalent of royalty. The first Benedict Arnold had been one of the colony's founders, and subsequent generations had helped to establish the Arnolds as solid and respected citizens.

Sugriva was the son of Surya and Vali was the son of Shakra.

Nahush begot Yayáti: he, Nábhág of happy destiny. Son of Nábhág was Aja: his, The glorious DaÅ›aratha is, Whose noble children boast to be Ráma and Lakshma?, whom we see.

the son of Olaf. The latter was a tall

He had seen how improbable it is that we should come from one another and how improbable it is that we do come from one another. Birth, succession, the generations, history—utterly improbable. He had seen that we don't come from one another, that it only appears that we come from one another.

It's said that the only immortality a man can achieve is through his children. I understand that now.)

All of us descend from a long and unbroken line of ancestors who competed successfully for desirable mates, attracted mates who were reproductively valuable, retained mates long enough to reproduce, fended off interested rivals, and solved the problems that could have impeded reproductive success.

Quienes no se emparejan no se convierten en antepasados. Cada ser humano, por lo tanto, desciende de una línea larga e ininterrumpida de otros que se emparejaron con éxito a lo largo de millones de años. Si uno de nuestros antepasados no hubiera conseguido salvar los complejos obstáculos que supone el emparejamiento, no estaríamos vivos para reflexionar sobre tales hechos improbables.