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Quotations on Ancestry
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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. ~ Voltaire
Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite. ~ Edmund Burke
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
~ Moliere
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. ~ Moliere
We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit. ~ Horace
My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off. ~ Alexandre Dumas
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
~ Richard Whately
Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease. ~ Ed Howe
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of. ~ George Chapman
Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one. ~ Howard Kenneth Nixon
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ~ Plutarch
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. ~ H.F. Hedge
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry, is like the potato - the best part under ground. ~ Thomas Overbury
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. ~ Lucan
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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