Quotes About Lineage

You say that you have a dog. Yes, a villain of a one, said Ctesippus. And he has puppies? Yes, and they are very like himself. And the dog is the father of them? Yes, he said, I certainly saw him and the mother of the puppies come together. And is he not yours? To be sure he is. Then he is a father, and he is yours; ergo, he is your father, and the puppies are your brothers.

Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.

Furthermore, his family's connections

Parents pass their genes vertically to their offspring.

Panthea, the daughter of John Kennedy Ching

just Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I couldn't feel properly toward a child that's not Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, not of my blood.

he might be a smaller version of his uncle Dougal, who sat next to him.

If we follow the ancestral line of our umbilical cord from our mother, to her mother's mother, her mother's mother's mother, and so on, eventually we will reach our primal mother—the one we all share.

The umbilical cord is a precious lifeline that began in my primal mother and has come down to me.

debía acreditar que entre sus antepasados no existía ningún converso musulmán o judío.

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

would be important to ascertain whether a man's son was his own through a wife's purity, but where marriage was not involved it was

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.

The only true immortality lies in one's children. [ Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger ]

Cualquiera puede comenzar, pero solamente alguien de buena estirpe puede terminar.

He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson

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

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

My father had the curved feet, my mother the legs, so I am a bit of both.