1.
I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.
Dana Burnet
3.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
Seneca the Younger
4.
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
Josh Billings
5.
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
6.
In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.
George Herbert
7.
Of what avail are pedigrees?
Juvenal
8.
Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.
Steven Pinker
9.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
Ovid
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I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.
Philip Sidney