Lineage Quotes

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

In the African matrilineal society, the lineage of the bloodline comes down through the female side. The Arabs who invaded East Africa and other parts of Africa reversed it to the patrilineal where everything comes down through the male side and the woman has no basic rights except that which the male is willing to grant her.

If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.

Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the truth, once you have become consciousness itself, then you go beyond all such distinctions.

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical conservatism. Change in the manner Darwin expected is just not found in the fossil record.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians from the 1800s as well as Tuskegee Airmen in my lineage.

I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.

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.

If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because the trait has effect E, a natural hypothesis to consider is that T evolved in the lineage leading to those current organisms because T had effect E. This hypothesis is "natural," but it often isn't true!

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.