Ancestors Quote by Don Marquis

“We don't put much stock in genealogy where I'm from [...] It's assumed that you're kind of a loser if you have to sink…

— Lisa Cach

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

— Alex Haley

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

“More than once I have tried to picture myself in the position of a boy or man with an honoured and distinguished ancestry which…

— Solomon Northup

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are…

— Clarence Darrow

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

— Sydney J. Harris

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken…

— Suzanne Collins

Some family members are only members who try to become family the moment you've made your way to the top!

— Michael Campbell

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

— Ring Lardner

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

— Beatrix Potter