Ancestry Quotes: top 86 famous quotes about Ancestry

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Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. — Joseph Addison

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place. — Harold Prince

I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods. — Kyle MacLachlan

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? — Philip Sidney

Ancestry is not destiny, — Eric Weiner

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. — Van Wyck Brooks

We are all descendants of murderers and thieves. — Amanda Sledz

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers. — Patti Smith

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. — Henry Louis Gates

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own. — Ben Jonson

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. — Josh Billings

My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry. — Joseph Bruchac

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. — V.S. Naipaul

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry. — Jamie Cullum

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry. — Archibald F. Bennett

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. — Seneca The Younger

Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment. — Franz Boas

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. — Will Rogers

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white. — Henry Louis Gates

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground. — William Tyler

Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage. — Saadi

You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment — Rex Stout

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea. — Mick Taylor

It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry. — Huston Smith

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry. — Allegra Huston

We do not brag about ancestors that were not great — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood. — DaShanne Stokes

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from. — Garrison Keillor

I come from a long line of miserable people. — Arlene Schindler

Your ancestors are rooting for you. — Eleanor Brownn

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere. — Ken Follett

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back. — Spencer Wells

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. — Lucan

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg. — Napoleon Bonaparte

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times. — Bryan Sykes

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. — Voltaire

To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled. — Colin Quinn

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

A Nation ... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors — Karl Deutsch

The fountain of youth resides in our memory. You will never outlive your shadow. — Lorin Morgan-Richards

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans. — John F. Kerry

People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. — Maxine Hong Kingston

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. — Thomas John Barnardo

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. — Thomas Overbury

People like to trace their ancestry. — Richard Dawkins

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own. — Marcus Garvey

While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven. — Max Lucado

We all swim deep in the river of our ancestry. — Richard Paul Evans

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. — Ovid

Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard. — Laurence Overmire

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done. — John Caudwell

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. — Alice Walker

America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America. — Omar N. Bradley

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — John Phillips Marquand

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa. — Tahir Shah

It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. — John Steinbeck

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively. — Piers Anthony

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry. — Hosea Ballou

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves. — Louis L'Amour

Much the same may be said of his ancestry and family connections. — Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry. — Molly Antopol

The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall. — Clarence Day

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from. — Benvenuto Cellini

High birth is an accident, not a virtue. — Pietro Metastasio

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves ... sometimes even physically. — Raquel Cepeda

Our names were made for us in another century. — Richard Brautigan

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless. — John Barrymore

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

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry. — Maya Rudolph

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors. — William Ralph Inge

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. — Homer

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. — Alexander Pope

By ancestry, I was born to rule. — Nelson Mandela

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. — Alan Robinson

My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. — Seneca The Elder