pedigree quotes

The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy

- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
c.1884  Complete Poems, no.1627 (first published1890).

Today educated people look upon traditional religious tiesCatholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Jewishas matters of social pedigree. It is only art that they look upon religiously.

-Tom (Thomas Kennerley) Wolfe
  'TheWorship of Art: Notes on the New God', in Harper's, Oct.