ANCESTRY

Quote: I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Author: Fred A. Allen 1894-1957, American Radio Comic


Quote: Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''


Quote: If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.

Author: Nicholas Boileau 1636-1711, French Literary Poet, Critic


Quote: Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Author: Van Wyck Brooks


Quote: Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.

Author: Luther Burbank 1849-1926, American Horticulturist


Quote: Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author


Quote: The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author


Quote: Breed is stronger than pasture.

Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist


Quote: Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist


Quote: I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

Author: W. S. Gilbert 1836-1911, British Librettist


Quote: Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?

Author: Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra


Quote: Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet


Quote: Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet


Quote: None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author


Quote: I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA


Quote: The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

Author: Henry Louis


Quote: They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor


Quote: High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Author: Pietro Metastasio 1698-1782, Italian Poet


Quote: We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Author: Joyce Carol Oates 1938-, American Author


Quote: The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground.

Author: Sir Thomas Overbore


Quote: The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet


Quote: Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher


Quote: It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer


Quote: From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Author: Proverb


Quote: Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.

Author: Danish Proverb Sayings of Danish Origin


Quote: Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.

Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin


Quote: Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

Author: Russian Proverb Sayings of Russian Origin


Quote: There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

Author: W. Winwood Reade 1838-1875, American Writer


Quote: My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

Author: Will Rogers 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor


Quote: Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA


Quote: He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher


Quote: No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher


Quote: Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.

Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher


Quote: Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist


Quote: Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist


Quote: In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist


Quote: Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer


Quote: The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

Author: Source Unknown


Quote: Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer