Ancestors Quotes

Many a family tree needs trimming.

Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one.

Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver’s issue, as the prince’s son.

My nobility begins in me, but yours ends in you.

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.