Ancestry Quotes

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

— Voltaire

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

— Nelson Mandela

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“We all swim deep in the river of our ancestry.”

— Richard Paul Evans

You going PLAY or you going to WIN!!!!!

— MrAwesome

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

— Pietro Metastasio

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.

— Raquel Cepeda

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

— Plato

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

— William Ralph Inge

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

— Auston Matthews

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.

— Thomas John Barnardo

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

— Amit Kalantri

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

— Will Rogers

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

— Alan Robinson

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

— Thomas Overbury

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

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

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

— Seneca the Elder

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

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

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their…

— Marcus Garvey

We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When…

— Henry Louis Gates

For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good…

— Jeremy Hardy

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

There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.…

— Anne Waldman

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the…

— Michael Specter

“Ancestry has found its home               strung up in guitars               and from gallows.   Contributions               of DNA                             have…

— Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia

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

Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo…

— Cees Nooteboom

Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning…

— Elliott Sober

“When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story…

— Kara Martinelli

What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination…

— Lewis H. Lapham

This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past.…

— Kevyn Aucoin

“It becomes more and more difficult to credit Lisa with being a quarter Russian. Somewhere and within and behind this quintessentially middle-class…

— Penelope Lively

“I call this place the mother ache rather than the mother wound because it is not only pain but also longing—the pull…

— Deva Arani

“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated…

— Susan Abulhawa

Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get…

— Darold Treffert