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
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
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse,… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their… — Nainoa Thompson Copy Share Image
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ...… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story -… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
“So a dog's value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines -… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself… — Plato Copy Share Image
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new… — Lynn Margulis 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained… — Jack London Copy Share Image
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke 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
“Many of these mixed-blood Indian people were eventually forced into hiding or denial of their Indian ancestry because of their fear of… — Rickey Butch Walker Copy Share Image
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. — George Bernard Shaw 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
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods. — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor;… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
