Ancestor Quote by Clarence Darrow

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself…

— Ralph Ellison

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one.…

— Don Marquis

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

— Nicolas Cage

Are we being good ancestors?

— Jonas Salk

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

— Louis L'Amour

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

— Jonas Salk

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

— Nick Nolte

Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and…

— John Steinbeck

“GRANDPARENTS For many peoples of black Africa, ancestors are the spirits that live in the tree beside your house or in the cow grazing…

— Eduardo Galeano

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being…

— Daniel Defoe

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

People like to trace their ancestry.

— Richard Dawkins