Quotes about Parentage

“Find out whose son this young man is!” said the king.

If unity lies in the Apostolical succession, an act of schism is from the nature of the case impossible; for as no one can reverse his parentage, so no Church can undo the fact that its clergy have come by lineal descent from the Apostles. Either there is no such sin as schism, or unity does not lie in the Episcopal form or in the Episcopal ordination.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

You are my son, then, I'll tell you' and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.