Lineage Quotes - Page 2

• I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Character, Development, Narrative

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Supportive, Generations, Valleys

  "STEVE JOBS: The Biggest Mistake Apple Made After I Left Was Focusing On Profits Instead Of Products..." by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 23, 2011.

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• No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.

  Henry Gee

  Mean, Scarcity, Stories

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• 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.

  Anne Waldman

  Earthquakes, Cities, America

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspiration, Men, Justice

  Woodrow Wilson (1978). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.

  Thomas Cahill

  Kings, Husband, Father

  Thomas Cahill (2011). “How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Past, Sacred, Tradition

  "Gloria in excelsis deo: Britain tunes in to its spiritual side" by Stephen Pritchard, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2014.

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• 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.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Children, Father, Years

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.230, Zed Books

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• The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass on a heritage, a lineage and a legacy of American exceptionalism to each and everyone of you so that you can enjoy all the great liberties and freedoms that all the previous generations have had.

  Allen West

  Country, Liberty, Legacy

  Source: wethekids.us

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• 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.'

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Criminals, Looks, Slavery

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• I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Qualms About, Ice, Care

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

  Solange Knowles

  Albums, Tables, Storytelling

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In the African matrilineal society, the lineage of the bloodline comes down through the female side. The Arabs who invaded East Africa and other parts of Africa reversed it to the patrilineal where everything comes down through the male side and the woman has no basic rights except that which the male is willing to grant her.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Rights, East Africa, Sides

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage lamas who are male. What message does that give to a young girl, except that somehow she got trapped in the wrong body because of bad things she did in a past life?

  Tenzin Palmo

  Girl, Sex, Inspiration

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.

  Elliott Sober

  Skulls, Order, Confusing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because the trait has effect E, a natural hypothesis to consider is that T evolved in the lineage leading to those current organisms because T had effect E. This hypothesis is "natural," but it often isn't true!

  Elliott Sober

  Helping, Natural, Currents

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into my own consciousness, and the whole fun of them is being able to live in others' consciousness.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Fun, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Matt Tong

  Real, Rocks, Problem

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

  Don Marquis

  Men, Atheism, Proud

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.58, Anchor

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• 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.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Politician, Royalty, Slave

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 17, 2012.

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• On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

  Ernst Mayr

  Believe, Events, Earth

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• I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Two, India And Pakistan, Nuclear

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman

  Guru Nanak

  Kings, Giving, World

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• Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Past, People, Community

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• I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.

  James A. Michener

  People, Adoption, Heritage

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