Quotes about Lineage

And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

How could he deny the jewels of posterity within his loins?

still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.

These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers. (1 CHRONICLES 6:19B)

The true sons of Abraham are not identified biologically, but Christologically.

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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.