Our Friends
Ancestry Quotes
|
|
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))
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
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)