One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.
Ancestors Quotes
We live in a great and free country only because our forefathers were willing to wage war rather than accept the peace that spells destruction.
It is more important to know where your children are tonight than where your ancestors were when the Mayflower sailed.
They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose your ancestors carefully. Although both my parents died young, I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors. My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth, at the age of sixty-seven, but […]
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy.
You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.
Old genealogists never die. They just lose their census.
Beware of men who flourish with hereditary honors.
