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?
Ancestors Quotes
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit.
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
The pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease.
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
A tribe must desist from boasting of their forefathers; if they will not leave off boasting, verily they will be more abominable near God, than a black beetle which rolleth forward filth by its nose; and verily God has removed from you pride and arrogance. There is no man but either a righteous believer or […]
Whatever good there is in the world I inherit from the courage and work of those who went before me. I, in turn, have a responsibility to make things better for those who will inherit the earth from me.
