Quotes About Lineage

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

But blood is never left up to you, blood will call to blood. You can't deny your own kin.

We are agreed that the son shall not be disgraced even by the crime of the father, much less by the crime of a more distant relative. It

Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by this heroic spirit; to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils." J.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

It should be clear by now that we tend to think about races along the same lines as we think about species. Both races and species are presumed to be natural kinds defined by hidden essences passed down the "bloodline" from parents to their offspring. Both are scientifically vacuous but intuitively compelling.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

I hope some of your DNA transferred to me.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all.

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.

Marriage between cousins was common in the planter families—rather, it was expected.

The names of families are the front doors of history.

Priests are the very offspring of God and share in his likeness. Our lineage is from heaven, which makes us hybrids of heaven and earth, though the scales tip in the direction of heaven. We are more connected to heaven than is the rest of creation. We are children priests or, since our Father is the king, we are royal priests who can enjoy his companionship as he actually enjoys ours.