Quotes of Genealogy - somelinesforyou

“ The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another. ”

- Seneca

“ Talents are distributed by nature without the slightest regard, or respect, to genealogies, pedigrees, ancestry, and all that kind of thing. ”

- Frederick The Great

“ Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. ”

- Lucan

“ Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ So what we can answer is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it — the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology. ”

- H. G. Wells

“ The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. ”

- Ovid

“ Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. ”

- Seneca

“ Language is the pedigree of nations. ”

- Unknown

“ Language is the pedigree of nations. ”

- Johnson

“ It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. ”

- Millard Fuller

“ Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. ”

- Seneca

“ Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. ”

- Luther Burbank

“ Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? ”

- Hitopadesa

“ The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. ”

- Thomas Overbury

“ People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar. ”

- William Congreve

“ I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ Born is a Cellar,... and living in a Garret. ”

- Samuel Foote

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

- Alex Haley

“ I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. ”

- Brendan Behan

“ Mothers can get weaned as well as babies. ”

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“ The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. ”

- Randall Jarrell

“ I am he As you are me And we are all together. ”

- John Lennon

“ The family is the American fascism. ”

- Paul Goodman
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