Ancestry Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

— Samuel Butler

For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as…

— Jeremy Hardy

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

— Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.

— Thomas John Barnardo

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant,…

— James Russell Lowell

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

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

— Lucan

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to…

— Thomas Paine

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

— William Tyler

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Beatrix Potter

The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.

— Franz Boas