I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively. — Piers Anthony 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
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. — V. S. Naipaul 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
In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long line of ne'er-do-wells, especially… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under… — Randall Kennedy 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
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
You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I am not impressed by ancestry, since if I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabeus or to King David, that would… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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 power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is the most polite word for abuse aka denying equal opportunity by anyone in power based on age, ancestry, color, disability… — Ramesh Lohia Copy Share Image
“I had nature in my heart, she said. Like she did, and her mother before her. There was something about us---the Weyward… — Emilia Hart Copy Share Image
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. — Thomas John Barnardo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground. — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. — Alan Robinson Copy Share Image
