A man's ancestry is a positive property to him. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“I keep the light and love from my ancestors and let go of the rest.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. — Homer Copy Share Image
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors — Karl Deutsch Copy Share Image
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back. — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Native American isn't blood. It is what is in the heart. The love for the land, the respect for it, those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
“I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is:… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Family is not just about who you appear to belong to, or what it says on your birth certificate, or who you… — Marina Chapman Copy Share Image
