Pedigree Quotes

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.

The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee- A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy-

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne to him who has never dreamed of a throne?

In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.

… human thoroughbreds

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

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

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

Of what avail are pedigrees?

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

There is no country that may … compare with ours in number, excellency, and diversity of dogs.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

You can't ever make assumptions about a family tree.

No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.

What is the use of your pedigrees?

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.