Ancestor Quote by Moliere

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

— Moliere

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

— Moliere

If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous.…

— Ibn Hazm

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who…

— Sam Heughan

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

— Moliere

And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies…

— Alyson Richman

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;…

— Ludwig von Mises

Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come…

— Jimmy Carter

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

— Pietro Metastasio

“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in…

— Norman F. Cantor

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

— Robert Bly

Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,…

— N.D. Wilson