Ancestry Quote by Huston Smith

I've got some Jewish ancestry and I don't like waste.

— Michael McIntyre

Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where…

— Terri Runnels

The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization.…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He…

— Norman Bethune

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

— Maya Rudolph

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be…

— Patti Smith

“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated it for…

— Susan Abulhawa

I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.

— Kyle MacLachlan

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was…

— Joseph Boyden

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

— Pietro Metastasio