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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Lincoln, Abraham
Ancestry Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Ancestry

1.
High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
Metastasio, Pietro

2.
If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
Boileau, Nicholas

3.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Chesterfield, Lord

4.
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

5.
Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.
Proverb, Danish

6.
My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
Rogers, Will

7.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch

8.
Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.
Burbank, Luther

9.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Seneca

10.
From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
Proverb

11.
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid

12.
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

13.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
Seneca

14.
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
Lowell, James Russell

15.
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

16.
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
Proverb, Russian

17.
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
Seneca

19.
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Allen, Fred A.

20.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Lincoln, Abraham

21.
Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.
Proverb, German

22.
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
Chesterfield, Lord

23.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.
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

25.
Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?
Hitopadesa

26.
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

27.
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

28.
Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Bierce, Ambrose

29.
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
Oates, Joyce Carol

30.
The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

31.
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
Plato

32.
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
Shaw, George Bernard


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