Lineage Quotes

Lineage Quote of the day

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.

If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.

I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians from the 1800s as well as Tuskegee Airmen in my 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.

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

I think it's really important to teach our children about their lineage and it especially makes a difference if you share that information while they're young.

I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'

Astrology is nothing but fault in our lines.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.