Quotes About Lineage

Whatever I'm going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy.

I'm proud of my lineage but never really depended on it anyway whatsoever.

I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or... I don't know, MGMT, we're all blessed to be able to create. It's a lineage that extends a long time. And to be able to be active in it and have made a difference in it, it's humbling. To know I had a place in all of this; that's the rewarding part.

No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.

I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?

Why would you want to just make up a middle name when the name should be coming from family and previous generations? I think it's really important.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

I don't come from a privileged background.

And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.

Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

I'm not technically royal.

Handsome in the manner of an Aryan prince, possessor of a trust fund, born to fulfill a preordained place in his family and the world; a man with all the confidence twelve generations of well-documented lineage can give.

It would drive a man mad to apprehend the whole tragedy, to know every effect and consequence, to know the names of every good man and woman, every genius and every saint, who was never born because their lineage petered out there on that rise at Franklin.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

My mother and my mother's mother were born in a place where time does not run as in Amber. I am the first of my mother's line to bear all the marks of humanity.

Who'd have thought the son of a bitch would reproduce?

An obscure cousin with no known antecedents. A blank space on the family tree.

Know from where you come. Before you know who you are and where you are going, you must know from where you come.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

Fact, I specks his mammy hatched him!