Pedigree Dog Quotes

#1. I'm not into having a pedigree dog.

Agnes Obel

#2. Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

Steven Pinker

#3. 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

#4. Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.

Pastor Maldonado

#5. Of what avail are pedigrees?

Juvenal

#6. Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period.

Walter Scott

#7. I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

Philip Sidney

#8. Our identity is anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not our own; Christ's strength, not ours; Christ's pedigree and track record, not ours; Christ's victory, not ours. Who we really are has nothing to do with us at all - rather, it has everything to do with what Jesus has done for us.

Tullian Tchividjian

#9. Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.

Hannah Storm

#10. I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

Dana Burnet

#11. What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.

Shackerley Marmion

#12. The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree.

Shawn Amos

#13. Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder.

Sophia Amoruso

#14. I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

Rita Coolidge

#15. 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

#16. I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.

Kate Winslet

#17. If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#18. Wisdom isn't bound by wealth brackets, status or caste, religion or pedigree. She feeds all who come to her hungry.

D.M. Anthony

#19. Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

Josh Billings

#20. 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

#21. The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldogs pedigree.

Robert Bolt

#22. Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

Horace

#23. Huh! It is only a pahari," said Kim over his shoulder. "Since when have the hill-asses owned all Hindustan?"
The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations.

Rudyard Kipling

#24. 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

#25. Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.

Michael Douglas

#26. Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

Robert Samuelson

#27. Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

James Rollins

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Emily Dickinson

#31. Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

Ovid

#32. Paul makes it clear enough that it takes more than an Abrahamic pedigree to be a child of God. To be a child of God requires faith in Christ.

Martin Luther

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

Audrey Hepburn

#37. He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

Seneca The Younger

#38. It's not whiteness itself that sets Them against Us, but the worship of whiteness. Same goes if you swap whiteness out for other things
fancy possessions for sure, pedigree, maybe youth too ... we beat Them (and spare ourselves a lot of tedium and terror) by declining to worship.

Helen Oyeyemi

#39. Sometimes you want to dress a certain way ... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

Ezra Koenig

#40. pedigree whose odor even the forest of air-freshener trees he'd hung from the mirror couldn't mask.

Ransom Riggs

#41. Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw

#42. It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that's who the focus is on - and it definitely doesn't matter if I am a woman or a man.

Gracia Martore

#43. Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors ...

Joseph Conrad

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Samuel Johnson

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

Seneca The Younger

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

Jon Bon Jovi

#54. His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue by Greek envy.

David B. Dacosta

#55. In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.

George Herbert

#56. 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

#57. It is valour which defines a kshatriya, a kshatriya does not define valour. You are known by the deeds done; merit has no pedigree.

Kavita Kane

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

Charles Darwin

#59. 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

#60. I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian.

Aasif Mandvi

#61. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling.

Thomas Harris

#62. 14th- and 15th-century drawings are almost unheard-of - and as a result, they generate jealous desire among dealers and curators. Museums in particular value rarity and pedigree more than attractiveness.

Peter Landesman

#63. It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

Josh Billings

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

Millard Fuller

#65. Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.

Louis MacNeice