Ancestry Quotes

111 Ancestry quotes by 94 unique authors

Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry… — Booker T. Washington
The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it… — Henry Louis Gates
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to… — William Winwood Reade
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do… — Horace
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole… — James Russell Lowell
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals… — Eric Hoffer
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. — Unknown Author
There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from. — Garrison Keillor
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. — Alexander Pope
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends… — Edmund Burke
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. — Homer
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall. — Clarence Day
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors... This is… — Erwin Schrodinger
We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively. — Piers Anthony
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
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. — Alan Robinson
So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to… — Spencer Wells
Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own. — Marcus Garvey
I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every… — Lyndon B. Johnson

Who Wrote These Ancestry Quotes

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