Ancestry Quotes

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

James Russell Lowell

Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.

Danish Proverb

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

Joyce Carol Oates

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

Homer

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.

Samuel Butler

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

Edmund Burke

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Alex Haley

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.

Harlan Stone

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Thomas John Barnardo

Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!

Wilma Scott Heide

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

William Inge

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Voltaire

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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