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
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. — Alice Walker 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
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage. — Thomas John Barnardo Copy Share Image
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no… — Kamla Persad-Bissessar Copy Share Image
It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story… — Spencer Wells 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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No… — Terri Runnels Copy Share Image
“Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal-each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair 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
“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
“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
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
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“The question is not, can you, given an individual’s skin color, hair texture, or language, infer something about their ancestry or origin.… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
