My nobility begins in me, but yours ends in you.
Ancestors Quotes
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.
Confound these ancestors. They’ve stolen our best ideas!
The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.
Breed is stronger than pasture.
Ah, sir, I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor.
We cannot reform our forefathers.
One of my Swiss ancestors was the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich and wrote a book on the subject of their education – rather a singular coincidence; though it is true that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a […]
A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
