Sentence examples for my parentage from inspiring English sources

On occasions, he has been subject to abuse: "I have had my parentage questioned a few times".

Who is this lady described in your recent PROFILE under the title "WE?" She claims my name & my parentage, & some part of my recent & current recorded doings.

Percy Shelley enthusiastically encouraged Mary Shelley's writing: "My husband was, from the first, very anxious that I should prove myself worthy of my parentage, and enrol myself on the page of fame.

But put to one side my Asian looks, ignore my Pakistani parentage and overlook my Muslim name, and I could easily be one of the children of Israel.

The gift of my Greek parentage is ancestral [links to] tragedy and comedy, those kind of currents.

"I thought it was maybe because of my Moroccan parentage I wasn't getting anywhere," he says.

Only in recent years have I fully come to understand the truth about my background and parentage, and this has helped a great deal in resolving some of the questions.

Another university student, Lilia Kerimova, 19, of mixed Tatar- Russian parentage, said: "My mother is Russian and she wants us to belong to Russia.

I don't belong to a country club, although my parents did in their last years (they weren't allowed to join for decades--even though they lived across the street--because of my father's Jewish parentage).

"I met the people I went to school with in Cologne, with exactly the same background as my own, same heritage, same parentage," she wrote.

And I've noticed how often they answer questions about parentage the way my daughter did: quietly correcting the wrong impression or impatiently filling in the blanks so that they can just move on.