Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Ancestors from all times have shared their essence with you. Accept the light and let go of the rest.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Each of us carries a story written in the language of our mothers, still echoing through our bones.” — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground. — William Tyler Copy Share Image
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America. — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past.… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“It becomes more and more difficult to credit Lisa with being a quarter Russian. Somewhere and within and behind this quintessentially middle-class… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“I call this place the mother ache rather than the mother wound because it is not only pain but also longing—the pull… — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages,… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. — Thomas John Barnardo Copy Share Image
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
