Your Ancestry Quotes: top 40 famous quotes about Your Ancestry

Your Ancestry Quotes & Sayings

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your ancestors are rooting for you. — Eleanor Brownn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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