Lineage Quotes

• We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Song, Stars, Heart

  'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'

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

  E. O. Wilson

  Track, Evolution, Humans

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.190, Vintage

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• The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.

  Josh Gad

  Israel, Hands, Tv Shows

  "The Tavis Smiley Show', www.pbs.org. February 13, 2013.

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

  Frank O'Hara

  Worry, Poetic, Natural

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.307, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Rick Moody

  Boston, Historical, Trying

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

  Alex Haley

  Heritage, Who We Are, Hunger

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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• Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, Men, Whales

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.19, Open Road Media

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

  Philip Glass

  Lonely, Remember, Feels

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• Each of us is the next step in evolution along the lineage created by our two parents. Our higher purpose on earth can be found by recognizing what our parents accomplished and where they left off. By reconciling what they gave us with what they left us to resolve, we can get a clear picture of who we are and what we are meant to do.

  James Redfield

  Two, Parent, Next Steps

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

  Alex Haley

  Family, Talking, Alex

  "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in TIME magazine, February 14, 1977.

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

  Shia LaBeouf

  Artist, Generations, My Family

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

  Leon Kass

  Generations, Way, Next

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

  Jim Hodges

  Next, Standing

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• 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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Gratitude, Attitude, Worry

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• In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

  Alex Haley

  Loneliness, Adoption, Vacuums

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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• Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the truth, once you have become consciousness itself, then you go beyond all such distinctions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Realizing

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• 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.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Children, Thinking, Differences

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

  Hilaire Belloc

  Food, Cooking, Noble

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• Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures...

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Father, Blessing, Race

  "The Church of Latter-Day Saints: Heterosexism, Racism and ‘Revelation’" by Warren J. Blumenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2012.

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

  Ariel Pink

  Strong, Events, Impulse

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• From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

  Lynn Collins

  Medicine, People, Magic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ellen Forney

  Artist, Mood, Disorder

  "Ellen Forney On Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, And 'Marbles'". Interview with Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the most dangerous cultic figures of our times have no such stabilizing context of tradition, lineage or transmission, but are self-proclaimed gurus who sway their followers through their charismatic talents. . . .

  John Welwood

  Teacher, Self, Discipline

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• Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Racism, Political

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.148, Penguin

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• My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates" after the ancient Greek, and wrote about in my first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. That book emerged in 1980, as a result of travels around the world and decades of preparation, eventually leading to 15 other books written over the years, culminating in my newest offering, The Four Purposes of Life.

  Dan Millman

  Book, Warrior, Years

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