Pedigree Quotes

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

“Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to ‘cleaning’ as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings – and anyway, she didn’t need to know her mark’s entire pedigree or life’s story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read – on those rare occasions – her books were always dog-eared from the back.”

“Languages are the pedigree of nations.”

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

“If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it.”

“The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy.”

“Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.”

“The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.”

“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.”

“TRINA:I'm tired of all the happy men who rule the world.Their smile, their smile's their pedigree. They smile, but not for me.I'd like the chance to hideIn their world.I'm happy, but I'm not at ease with that whole world.”