It takes at least three generations to be accepted in Ford County. Regardless of money or breeding, one cannot simply move there and be trusted. A dark cloud of suspicion hangs over any newcomer… The people there are exceedingly warm and gracious and polite… They nod and speak to everyone on the downtown streets. They […]
Ancestors Quotes
The lesson of the tremendous days through which we are passing is that men cannot live upon the achievements of their forefathers, but must themselves renew them – We cannot escape the elementary facts of life – that for a people there is nothing for nothing, that what they have they must themselves make, that […]
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
What we shall some day become will grow inexorably out of what today we are; and what we are now, in its turn, comes out of what earlier Americans were – out of what they did and thought and dreamed and hoped for, out of their trials and their aspirations, out of their shining victories […]
I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. I know that few of you who read my words have ever thought about your ancestors this way. It has not occurred to you that your ancestors were survivors and that the survival itself sometimes involved […]
One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
If you could see your ancestors, all standing in a row, there might be some among them whom you wouldn’t care to know. But there’s another matter, which requires a different view; if you could see your ancestors, would they be proud of you?
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit.
