Ancestry Quotes · Page 10

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

— Joseph Addison

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

— Amit Kalantri

So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically…

— Spencer Wells

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

— Louis L'Amour

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

— Ovid

“So a dog's value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines -…

— David Wroblewski

I take a lot of pride in my ancestry and where I come from.

— Auston Matthews

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

— Nelson Mandela

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

— Alan Robinson

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble…

— Ben Jonson

“The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains his crime. He reinforces…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

— Piers Anthony

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