Ancestry Quotes

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

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

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

The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or social position by reference to the Christian faith.

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.

People like to trace their ancestry.

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.

All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

My ancestors offer me bliss, love, and light. I gratefully receive that which is for my highest good and release the rest back into the pure, white light.