Ancestry Quotes

Ancestry Quote of the day

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.

America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

Our names were made for us in another century.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

The family is the American fascism.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.