Ancestry Quote by Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

— Thomas John Barnardo

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

— Beatrix Potter

For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as…

— Jeremy Hardy

Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become…

— Michael Josephson

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

— Louis L'Amour

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

— Sydney J. Harris

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well…

— Henry Cavill

Most of all family is more important than anything.

— Mason Ramsey

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

— Ring Lardner

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and…

— Charles de Lint

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

— Henry David Thoreau

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

— Alex Haley