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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. -- George Bernard Shaw
I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. -- Christopher Eccleston
The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of. -- Gary Lucas
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me. -- Arthur Golden
Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage. -- Saadi
A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage. -- Thomas John Barnardo
I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone. -- Don DeLillo
I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. -- Maya Angelou
It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction. -- Alvin Boyd Kuhn

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