Famous quotes containing the words mixed and/or parentage:
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)