Ancestry Quote by Ben Jonson

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

— Plutarch

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

— Plato

“It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”

— Plutarch

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as…

— Plato

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The trouble with noble descent is sinful pride.

— Rosie P

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

— Jonas Salk

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God…

— Phillips Brooks

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to…

— Albert Pike

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum gloria posteris…

— Sallust

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate…

— Richard Allen