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Ancestry
Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Best Quotes about Ancestry
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
Seneca
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.
Reade, W. Winwood
The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground.
Overbore, Sir Thomas
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
Chesterfield, Lord
If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
Boileau, Nicholas
Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Brooks, Van Wyck
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
Seneca
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.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch
Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.
Proverb, German
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
Lowell, James Russell
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
Oates, Joyce Carol
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
Shaw, George Bernard
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
Howe, Edgar Watson
Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?
Hitopadesa
Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Bierce, Ambrose
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Seneca
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
Plato
Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.
Proverb, Danish
High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
Metastasio, Pietro
Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.
Burbank, Luther
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Allen, Fred A.
From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
Proverb
My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
Rogers, Will
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.
Louis, Henry
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
Proverb, Russian
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Chesterfield, Lord
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Lincoln, Abraham
The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.
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