Ancestry Quotes
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It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The Lord s Name is my most beloved society, the Lord s Name is my ancestry, and the Lord s Name is my family. (Quote by - Guru Gobind Singh)
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. (Quote by - Homer)
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. (Quote by - Seneca)
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. (Quote by - Lucan)
All of them can trace their heritage to having ancestry in the Revolutionary War. The chapter approached me last year about staging an exhibition and I thought that was a great idea. (Quote by - Nancy Krieski)
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Belafonte continues to distort history. My book shows that a number of people of partial Jewish ancestry served in the German military, but they did not even consider themselves Jews. (Quote by - Bryan Mark Rigg)
A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. (Quote by - Alan Robinson)
I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. (Quote by - William S. Gilbert)
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. (Quote by - Cicero)
My nobility, said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you. (Quote by - Iphicrates)
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Perrin had adopted the name Newark for his project, after the family's New Jersey ancestry, and if he went ahead with his town location, the ranchers laughed, the name would prove to be apt. Anybody foolish enough to actually buy the land would need an ark to reach it. Perrin ignored the jokes, .. The Centennial History of Newark. (Quote by - Bruce MacGregor)
Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove. (Quote by - Horace)
A lot of my fondness for music came from them, and no doubt from their Welsh and Irish ancestry, too. When I reached 12, I finally knew I wanted to be a singer. (Quote by - Hayley Westenra)
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only good belonging to him is under ground. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Overbury)
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. (Quote by - Alex Haley)
I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it -- the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology. (Quote by - Spencer Wells)
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar. (Quote by - William Congreve)
We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively. (Quote by - Piers Anthony)
Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Mr. Lincoln, I believe your grandfather was a farmer in Pennsylvania. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. (Quote by - Ovid)
She had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)
The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall. (Quote by - Clarence Day)
The theory is that any racial group whose members have at least one drop of 'indigenous' ancestry can create a government with its own set of laws and its own exclusive lands--for example, residents of America who have Mexican ancestry with at least one drop of Mayan or Aztec blood. (Quote by - Ken Conklin)
A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? (Quote by - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal))
Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret. (Quote by - Samuel Foote)
D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue, Et que tous, nos premier parents Ont mene la charrue. Mais, las de cultiver enfin La terre labouree L'une a detele le matin, L'autre l'apres-dinee. (Quote by - Marquis Philippe Emanuel de Coulanges)
The wisdom of our ancestors. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd, And mother Eve the humble distaff held, Who then his pedigree presumed to trace, Or challenged the prerogative of place? (Quote by - Samuel Foote)
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. (Quote by - Daniel Defoe)
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. (Quote by - Bryan Sykes)
No, my friends, I go (always other things being equal) for the man that inherits family traditions and the cumulative humanities of at least four or five generations. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. (Quote by - Harlan Stone)
We have not gotten information from any group that represents Irish or (anyone of) Irish ancestry .. that they believe that image is hostile and/or abusive. On the other hand, we had a lot of input from Native American tribes across the country that they believe the imagery at Florida State and other schools is offensive. (Quote by - Charlotte Westerhaus)
Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Faith, I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor. (Quote by - Andoche Junot)
When I arrive somewhere, I often ask local residents about their ancestry and tales and legends of the area. Enthusiastic villagers could help find the location and offer to lead the way. That helps a lot. (Quote by - Hong Feng)
I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror. (Quote by - Richard Brome)
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
