“She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.”
Ambrose Bierce
“She just had an outstanding conformation. It's nice to be able to buy into such a great pedigree. We were expecting to spend a lot, but $2.7-million sort of caught us by surprise. You want to do the right thing, though. Maybe she'll make that look like a bargain.”
Beverly Lewis
“Tag this insensitive if you like, but I arrived in this world with no star to light my way, no pedigree or chest full of precious jewels. Armed only with determination and moderation, I dug a good life out of hard rock. Without so much as a speck of shame, I find solace in the failures of those who dug as untiringly as I did but in the opposite direction.”
Bobby W. Miller
“I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree”
Dana Burnet
“In general, I would say our club team does well because it consists of players with high pedigrees. A lot of us come from good lacrosse high schools and don't need to be taught how to play the game.”
Kevin Block
“She's got the conformation; she's got the pedigree; she's got the class. She's the kind that doesn't come along very often. I can't fault her. At the top end of the business, a horse has to keep climbing the ladder. Ever since the spring, every month, she matured and she headed the right way. They don't all do that.”
Craig Bandoroff
