Ancestry Quote by Thomas John Barnardo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.

— Thomas John Barnardo

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

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

— Louis L'Amour

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

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

— Sydney J. Harris

Your character is far more important than your past or your future; its who you are that matters, not what you've done or will…

— Anonymous

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

— Samuel Butler

The other piece about tracing your ancestry is it makes you slightly more empathetic about what happens today. As we seem to have lost…

— Alex Wagner

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

— George William Curtis