Ancestry Quote by Anonymous

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

— Voltaire

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

— Voltaire

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another

— Seneca

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

— Louis L'Amour

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

— Samuel Butler

“I am not impressed by ancestry, since if I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabeus or to King David, that would not add…

— Isaac Asimov

We must strive to become good ancestors.

— Ralph Nader

“Full confession: I am not dispassionate and unbiased. I didn't come to genetic genealogy services to be underwhelmed or go back to a vague…

— Michael W. Twitty

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

— Ovid

People like to trace their ancestry.

— Richard Dawkins

The other piece about tracing your ancestry is it makes you slightly more empathetic about what happens today. As we seem to have lost…

— Alex Wagner

Are we being good ancestors?

— Jonas Salk