Quotes of Pedigree - somelinesforyou

“ Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ 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

“ When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom. ”

- Peter Lynch

“ Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. ”

- Don Marquis

“ Breed is stronger than pasture. ”

- George Eliot

“ The nobler the blood the less the pride. ”

- Don Marquis

“ We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. ”

- Joyce Carol Oates

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

- Millard Fuller

“ What is the use of your pedigrees? ”

- Juvenal

“ The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse. ”

- Unknown

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

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ 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

“ Language is the pedigree of nations. ”

- Unknown

“ I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them; but every Englishman loves a pedigree. ”

- George Bernard Shaw
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