The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground. — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
“More than once I have tried to picture myself in the position of a boy or man with an honoured and distinguished… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which… — Warder Clyde Allee Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, all life on earth - the only life we know - represents, for all its current variety, the results of a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long line of ne'er-do-wells, especially… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
“Many of these mixed-blood Indian people were eventually forced into hiding or denial of their Indian ancestry because of their fear of… — Rickey Butch Walker Copy Share Image
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods. — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing.” — Amy Leigh Mercree 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
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
