Ancestors Quotes

The cuckoo lays her eggs in another bird’s nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. A man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

They who depend on the merits of ancestors, search in the roots of the tree for the fruits which the branches ought to produce.

Pedigree, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.