Quotes About Lineage

There was more to being something than just blood.

And Mozasu? He is Baek Isak's son? He doesn't look like me." Sunja

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

Many of the people there were in their twenties and thirties, and I wondered if they were Blanca or the friends of Blanca..There were also people in their forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies, and these people had a chance of being Blanca, too, or the parents of Blanca, or grandparents or even great-grandparents of Blanca, if Blanca was a child. There were a few children running around, sisters of brothers, who could be Blanca or Blanca's grandchild...

If I'm hunter-born and you're hunter-born, doesn't that mean that Father must behunter-born, too?' ... 'the ability isn't active in him, like it is in me and you. Do you understand?' A thoughtful nod ... 'Like he's asleep and we're awake.

After Napoleon would come his son, if he had one, or his brother's son if he did not.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Accordingly, if we put it in extreme terms, all types of Zen other than Patriarchal Zen are inauthentic. However, in a positive sense, it may be said that Zen Outside the Way (Gedo Zen), Common Zen (Bompu Zen), Zen of the Mouth and Head (Koto Zen), Literary Zen (Moji Zen), Zen for Health (Kenko Zen), Zen for Medical Treatment (Ryoyo Zen), and all the rest exist within the realm of Patriarchal Zen.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own

Connor to Major Wentworth, grandson of King George] "My fathers were lairds in the Highlands when yours were still farmin' kale back in Germany!

pedigree was for animals

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

I am Elizaveta Arkadyevna Vyshnevetskaya, of house Kikimora. I can trace my bloodline a thousand years.

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

Having no past we have only present and future. We would all like to believe that we came from nowhere but ourselves, every gesture is our own. But then we find we belong to the history and fate of a long line of beings that also may have wished to be free

Perhaps "staying connected to history" challenges me because I am an American with an ingrained American worldview. We Americans tend to think mostly about the present or the future and very little about our connection to the past. I don't even know my great-grandfather's name. A friend in Lebanon can trace his lineage back to the Phoenicians in 300 B.c.!

As someone special who was born from the house of Aaron the High Priest by the providence of God, John

It took eight generations of cousins marrying to produce you

I can trace her bloodline right back to Arabians on Earth from the mid-nineteenth century. She's as pure as they come. Not an artificial sequence in her whole genome;

There it was, plain and beautifully simple, five generations down the line. :)

our most recent common ancestor—a worm-like creature

He really your dad? Yes. On my father's side.