Famous quotes containing the words pedigree and/or stock:
“The pedigree of Honey
Does not concern the Bee,”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“However low and poor the taking Snuff argues a Man to be in his own Stock of Thought, or Means to employ his Brains and his Fingers, yet there is a poorer Creature in the World than He, and this is a Borrower of Snuff; a Fellow that keeps no Box of his own, but is always asking others for a Pinch.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)