Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one.
Ancestors Quotes
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.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
The cuckoo lays her eggs in another bird’s nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. A man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
They who depend on the merits of ancestors, search in the roots of the tree for the fruits which the branches ought to produce.
Pedigree, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.
Genealogy, n. An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
