Quotes About Lineage

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

If the father is not straight naider will be the son.

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

Paul makes it clear enough that it takes more than an Abrahamic pedigree to be a child of God. To be a child of God requires faith in Christ.

Simeon was the ancestor of Judas Iscariot;

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.

They were proud of their nationality, which had existed nearly as long as from Columbus to our own day. They gloried in their splendid background of great deeds and their long line of heroes reaching back to Rurik.

The German nation is of ancient lineage, and indeed belongs to the royal line of human descent, the Aryan;

Your ancestors are a ladder; upon them climb.

Who you come from is part of who you are. How do you just let that be stolen from you?

He is the son of an anointed and consecrated king, begotten on a lawful wife while he was still king.

There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.

Among the Mediterraneans," wrote Seltman, "as a general rule society was built around the woman, even on the highest levels where descent was in the female line. A man became king or chieftain only by a formal marriage and his daughter, not his son, succeeded so that the next chieftain was the youth who married his daughter Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Until the northerners arrived, religion and custom were dominated by the female principle.

The Gospel of Matthew states explicitly that Jesus was of royal blood—a genuine king, the lineal descendant of Solomon and David.

The Swedish royal family's legitimacy is even more tenuous. The current king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, is descended neither from noble Viking blood nor even from one of their sixteenth-century warrior kings, but from some random French bloke.

Do not harm. This is the first precept, or obligatory rule for behavior, given to a Zen Buddhist during lay ordination, a ceremony that marks a period of sincere practice, typically a year, with a teacher and other practitioners. If the first precept was not clear to the Abbot, what had been transmitted to him from the ancient lineage of dharma teachers ?

22Fidalgo derives from filho d'algo—literally, the "son of somebody"—though it later became a generic term for nobility.

One of a line of self-declared motor chauvinists, he boasts a lineage that includes the Nobel laureates Sir Charles Sherrington, who wrote, "Life's aim is an act, not a thought," and Roger Sperry, who encouraged us "to view the brain objectively for what it is, namely, a mechanism for governing motor activity."32 After all, it is action, not cogitation, that puts food on the table and a bun in the oven. Action allowed our ancestors to survive and reproduce.

Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.