What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague. — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or… — Gilles Kepel Copy Share Image
Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
“If I want to grow and blossom as any tree would, I have to start by knowing my roots and understand how… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry. — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian,… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“Ancestry has found its home strung up in guitars and from gallows. Contributions of DNA have… — Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia Copy Share Image
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean stone. By fire… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I… — Augustus Washington Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is the most polite word for abuse aka denying equal opportunity by anyone in power based on age, ancestry, color, disability… — Ramesh Lohia Copy Share Image
“I had nature in my heart, she said. Like she did, and her mother before her. There was something about us---the Weyward… — Emilia Hart Copy Share Image
I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I am not impressed by ancestry, since if I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabeus or to King David, that would… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. — Alan Robinson Copy Share Image
