Quotes About Lineage

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess. So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three other songs that were very different from one other, and they all kind of came together as a palette cleanser for the last record. And I'm really excited about it.

You can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy.

As they went, The Witch's Revenge sang a song: I had no mother and my mother had no mother and her mother had no mother and her mother had no mother and her mother had no mother and you have no mother to sing you this song

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

The son and heir of a mongrel bitch.

'Tis a happy thingTo be the father unto many sons.

Muslim scholar Ibn 'Arabi (1165–1240) wrote, "Every branch reverts to its root.

More precisely, he placed the most recent common ancestor of DRC60 and ZR59 in the year 1908, give or take a margin of error.

The carp boasted a proud, heroic lineage (though of course it was not aware of this, or anything else aside from a vague sense that being a fish was pretty sweet).

It says he's rich. It also says he's a scion. What the heck is a scion? Sounds like some kind of refrigerator or a car.

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

every family tree has at least one crooked branch.

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Names belonged to where we had come from, not to who we were...

No one in this world comes from nothing.

Carlston drew a breath through pinched nostrils. "Then what about Lady Helen herself? She is a direct inheritor; the Reclaimer daughter of a Reclaimer mother. That, at least, is documented." The wave of a thin hand dismissed his lordship's words. Or, Helen thought, maybe it dismissed such a female lineage.

That wasn't your mom in you—that was your dad.

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.