Ancestor Quote by Moliere

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

— Moliere

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

— Moliere

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

— Aaron Hill

We are all born; some remain so.

— Samuel Beckett

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

— Plutarch

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

— Ovid

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

— Plutarch

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

— Edward Young

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who…

— Suzanne Collins

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

— e. e. cummings

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth is irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who…

— Anonymous

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but…

— Shirley Franklin