Ancestry Quote by Ovid

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

— Ovid

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

— Moliere

I am not my self, I am the result of all my ancestors.

— Santiago Martinez Delgado

“Having born as a human, one has to distinguish between, ‘what is of the Self’, and ‘what is of the non-Self’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

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

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we…

— Tori Spelling

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

— Edward Young

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

— Paulo Freire

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet…

— John Townsend Trowbridge

“None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.”

— Kenneth Oppel

We must become what we were Before we were born

— Ikkyu