80 Pedigree Quotes

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Famous Pedigree Quotes

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

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

If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely. — Philip Glass

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. — Alex Haley

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. — Plato

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Lord Chesterfield

Languages are the pedigree of nations. — Samuel Johnson

Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants. — Danish proverb

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. — Ernest Hemingway

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. — Francis Bacon

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

Birth, ancestry, and that which you yourself have not achieved can hardly be called your own — Greek Proverbs

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Characteristics cling to families. — Francis Galton

Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage. — Saadi Shirazi

Short Pedigree Quotes

  • I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson
  • I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio. — Rita Coolidge
  • Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end. — Jon Bon Jovi
  • Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. — Seneca
  • Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree. — Ezra Koenig
  • Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. — Josh Billings
  • What is the use of your pedigrees? — Juvenal
  • In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers. — George Herbert
  • Of what avail are pedigrees? — Juvenal
  • Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. — Ovid

Dog Quotes

The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be. - Konrad Lorenz

The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be. — Konrad Lorenz

You treat me like a dog and you expect me to smile? You remind me of a jackass. - Stone Cold Steve Austin

You treat me like a dog and you expect me to smile? You remind me of a jackass. — Stone Cold Steve Austin

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap. — Ida B. Wells

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. — John Calvin

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. — Winston Churchill

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going. — Harriet Tubman

Don’t let the same dog bite you twice. - Chuck Berry

Don’t let the same dog bite you twice. — Chuck Berry

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. — Mark Twain

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. — Sri Aurobindo

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More Pedigree Quotes

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

You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven. Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God! — Boyd K. Packer

We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated! — Peter Hook

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

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. — Charles Darwin

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. — Samuel Johnson

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

The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no. — Clifford Stoll

I'm not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution. — Wesley Snipes

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. — Audra McDonald

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. — Robin McGraw

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. — Josh Billings

They (Bayern Munich) lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League to Real Madrid last year, and the year before that were beaten in the final by Manchester United, so their European pedigree is second to none. — Simon Brotherton

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! — William Gurnall

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

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it. — James Russell Lowell

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. — John Landis

We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best. — Plato

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

Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation. — Phyllis Mcginley

Language is the pedigree of nations. — Johnson

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

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species. — Melvin Maddocks

My intention with The Soup was to hopefully follow in the footsteps of past hosts, like Greg Kinnear. The pedigree of that show was really good and if it could just get me into some of those audition rooms I've always wanted to get into that I could not get into, then I would be very happy. — Joel McHale

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. — Doug Liman

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

The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse. — Unknown

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree. — Joseph J. Ellis

A great champion needs a background in amateur boxing, I’'m convinced of that. There you learn everything that you’ll need later as a pro. Someone who’s got more than 400 amateur fights behind him no longer gets nervous before going into the ring and doesn’t lose his nerve during a fight. You know all the boxing styles, you’re prepared for anything, you’ve got the pedigree that you need to be a successful pro. — Lennox Lewis

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