Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all… — John Frederick Boyes 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
“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
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
Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate… — John Caudwell 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
So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
I definitely think my ancestry has something to do with my politics. And I think being deeply suspicious of government and communists… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents… — Joseph Bruchac 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
“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
“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
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages,… — Wilma Mankiller 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
Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not… — FM-2030 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
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
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
The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by… — Hallie Flanagan Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their… — Horace 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
...the original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“My ancestors offer me bliss, love, and light. I gratefully receive that which is for my highest good and release the rest… — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“We are free falling backward through time, reincarnating ourselves from our past, reflecting the chaotic energy of the present.” — Lorin Morgan-Richards 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
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum… — Sallust Copy Share Image
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