Ancestry Quotes

111 Ancestry quotes by 94 unique authors

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
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle… — Penelope Lively
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. — Seneca the Younger
Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage. — Saadi
In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach… — Ruth Benedict
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. — Maxine Hong Kingston
...the original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live... — Ashley Montagu
Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this… — Kamla Persad-Bissessar
The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I… — Zoe Lister-Jones
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. — V.S. Naipaul
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. — Henry Louis Gates

Who Wrote These Ancestry Quotes

94 authors contributed a total of 111 Ancestry Quotes, led by these top contributors: