Pedigree Quotes

Pedigree Quote of the day

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

The pedigree's pretty high. For people who are really scary movie fans, this is nirvana. If you're in the mood to get scared, just watch this every week. It'll creep you out.

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

Of what avail are pedigrees?

In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree, or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.