Lineage Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical conservatism. Change in the manner Darwin expected is just not found in the fossil record.

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

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.'

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony.

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

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.