Quotes About Lineage

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi")

of we are to believe Helen Cody Wetmore, one of William Cody's sisters, her family was descended from Spanish and Irish royalty, and were accordingly entitled to a crest. In her book Buffalo Bill, Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of Colonel William F. Cody, published in 1899, she wrote that her brother was "a lineal descendant of Milesius, king of Spain, that famous monarch whose three sons, Heber, Heremon, and Ir, founded the first dynasty in Ireland about the beginning of the

For somehow your predecessors are more yourself than you are.

Not needlessly to confound the herald with the historian, and begin a relation by a pedigree, I shall content myself to inform you [only gives, thankfully, his mother and father].

Blood of our blood mixed with the old blood, raised by an ancient blood not ours.

La sangre alimenta a la sangre. La sangre llama a la sangre. La sangre es, fue y será por los siglos de los siglos.

People see essentialism embedded in bloodlines—i.e., genes.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

He gets power from his line, his master," I said, "it isn't always about personal power." "Truth and Wicked have no masters, do you?" The

The cost of survival of the lineage may be a lifetime of discomfort.

Everyone alive in the tenth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, and his children Drogo, Pippin and, of course, not forgetting Hugh. If

For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes.

Valmiki descended from Bhrigu rishi. Vyasa was the son of Parasara, the grandson of Vasishtha. Bhrigu and Vasishtha were two of the seven primaeval sages (sapta-rishis) who were Brahma's mind-born sons (manas-putras).

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

I didn't know you were re­lated to Se­wall Boat House too,' she said. 'Yeah. I come from a long line of wood and stone.

We stand not on the shoulders of giants, but on the shoulders of our grandparents and of our great-great-great-grandparents too.

Eighth Earl of Spencer

To jest tak, jakby? te wszystkie znajomo?ci dosta? w spadku. Po rodzicach, po dziadkach, pradziadkach. Tak to dzia?a. W?a?ciwie to ich nie znasz, ale znasz.

Because I am your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-Grandmother. But

Because I am your great-great-great-great-great-great-sgreat-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-Grandmother. But you may call me Grandmama." "Grandmama!" said Jenna, aghast.