Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
Ancestors Quotes
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.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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.
