Ancestor Quote by Henry S. F. Cooper

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

— Thomas Overbury

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

— William Tyler

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

— Samuel Butler

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

— Francis Bacon

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

— A. A. Milne

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their…

— Edward Alsworth Ross

“Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join on to,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A man who has suffered some humiliation invents a theory that he is King of England, and develops all kinds of ingenious explanations of…

— Bertrand Russell

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

— Adolf Hitler

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and…

— Erik Erikson