Quotes About Lineage

Princess Michael of Kent

I like the fact that I come with a lineage and have a filmi background.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

Now, I come from a long line of narcissists. And I also have no kids - by choice - but I understand not being a mother and the pain that comes from that.

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

I come from a long line of sportsmen.

I actually come from a long line of barbers.

I come from a long line of shorties.

She called me Tuck, which is what her mother used to call her father. All the male Browners were called Tuck. When the line began to pale, producing a series of aesthetes and incompetents, they gave the name to any man who married into the family, within reason.

i do not see why men should be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatsit

In the traditional Russian and Nazi definition of Jewishness, where parentage and surname counts as much as religious and cultural affiliation, such a view is plausible. But what was Jewish except lineage about Bolsheviks like Zinoviev, Trotsky, Kamenev, or Sverdlov? Some were second- or even third-generation renegades; few even spoke Yiddish, let alone knew Hebrew.

We're each an amalgamation of all those in our lineage. - Fergus McCrae

From the line of Nathan came Mary the mother of Jesus. From Solomon came Joseph, Mary's husband. The Lord Jesus Christ received the blood line and the legal title to the throne of David through Nathan and Solomon.

He smiled. "Would it help if I told you I'm a gentleman?" "No." She replied and lifted her chin slightly. "How about my…lineage?" "I'm American. We don't do lineage.

My words are the words of my father, and the words of my father are the words of my grandfather, and the words of my grandfather are the words of my great-grandfathers - Hasan and Husayn; and their words are the words of Ali, and the words of Ali are the words of the Prophet of Allah; and the words of the Prophet are the words of Allah.

When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood the Jews are actually nearer to Christ than we are.

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.

Divine blood flows differently in each god-born child.

You will pardon me if I do not rejoice at being one in a long line of villains.

the queen my good sister coming of the brother, and I of the sister.

everyone alive on the planet today is related both to Confucius (551–479 BC) and to Nefertiti (1370–1330 BC). So

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.