Ancestors Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestors Country His Need Serves Well Who
Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...… — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts,… — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
As a woman of color, I always pay homage to my ancestors and elders - in the industry in particular - who have paved… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started a new… — Goran Dragic Copy Share Image
Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an… — Mohamed Al-Fayed Copy Share Image
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
