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
The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes. — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“My family tree has many branches, both living and dead... but all equally important. I cherish the memories that make its roots… — Lynda I Fisher Copy Share Image
I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values,… — Gary Locke 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
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute… — Wilma Scott Heide Copy Share Image
“After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States entered into World War II to protect our way of life and to… — Kara Martinelli Copy Share Image
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred… — Ishmael Reed 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
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. — Josh Billings 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
“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
Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors — Karl Deutsch Copy Share Image
I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from… — Allegra Huston 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
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
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. — Thomas Overbury 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
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
