Quotes About Lineage

In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.

Eliminate your mother, then your two grandmothers, then your four great-grandmothers. Go back more generations and hundreds, then thousands disappear. Mothers vanish, and the fathers and mothers of those mothers. Ever more lives disappear as if unlived until you have narrowed a forest down to a tree, a web down to a line. This is what it takes to construct a linear narrative of blood or influence or meaning.

Toda a gente é influenciada por coisas que precedem a educação formal, que saem do nada e da vida do dia a dia. A essas influências excluídas chamo avós.

I have a friend whose family tree has been traced back a thousand years, but no women exist on it. She just discovered that she herself did not exist, but her brothers did.

First cousins, for instance, have two common ancestors, and the generation distance via each one is 4. Therefore their relatedness is

Over the course of a few generations, the average intelligence in an aristocratic family fell toward the population average, hastened by marriages that matched bride and groom by lineage, not ability.

Tell me, do you get the ape in you from your mother's or your father's side of the family? - Cat

she's related to one of the barons. With all

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

I made my money the old-fashioned way, I inherited it.

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

I am truly my mother's son.

I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.