Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. — Ovid Copy Share Image
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. — Seneca the Younger 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
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
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
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
“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” — Amit Kalantri 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
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
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
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
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
What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old… — Shackerley Marmion 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
Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance,… — Randy Jackson 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
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
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
No, it’s very comforting actually, to know that you’re sitting in a long legacy of actresses who’ve played the role. I’m absolutely… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image