I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. – W. S. Gilbert

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. – Joyce Carol Oates

Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? – Hitopadesa

Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. – Proverb