He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even… — Horace Copy Share Image
The Pedigree was something that I feel very fortunate to have it as a finisher. — Seth Rollins Copy Share Image
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. — Millard Fuller Copy Share Image
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you… — Gracia Martore Copy Share Image
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“Pedigree is a word derived from the middle French phrase pied de grue—the crane’s foot—as the digits and hallux spread from a… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a… — Ferdinand Columbus Copy Share Image
The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
We ... tend to evaluate others on the basis of physical, outward appearance: their "good looks," their social status, their family pedigrees,… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
“Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“What else matters but pedigree and rumor, my lord? Those things make the world go around.” — Jess Michaels Copy Share Image