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
Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom. - Robert Samuelson
Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors... - Joseph Conrad
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.