Ancestry Quotes

111 Ancestry quotes by 94 unique authors

For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to… — Michael Behe
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea — Mick Taylor
And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with… — Jeff Hawkins
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage. — Thomas John Barnardo
... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and… — Unknown Author
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all… — Cees Nooteboom
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back. — Spencer Wells
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — John Phillips
My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was… — Wilma Mankiller
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of… — Wilma Mankiller
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that… — W. S. Gilbert
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. — James Russell Lowell
In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his… — Jonathan Swift
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others. — Seneca the Younger
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. — Joseph Addison
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have… — Ben Jonson
People like to trace their ancestry. — Richard Dawkins
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine… — Harlan F. Stone
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the… — Ishmael Reed
During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four… — James Q. Wilson

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