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
“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” — Amit Kalantri 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
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
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
“Why? There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That’s why I needed ancestry.com.” — Gordon Korman 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
“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
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
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“Ancestry has found its home strung up in guitars and from gallows. Contributions of DNA have… — Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia Copy Share Image
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean stone. By fire… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story… — Kara Martinelli Copy Share Image
“For more than a century now, Lady Beatrice Rockford (1811-1850) has been known as "that wicked American" and her husband, the fifth… — Alexandra Monir Copy Share Image
“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Each of us carries a story written in the language of our mothers, still echoing through our bones.” — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
