Ancestry Quotes
These are some of the best 'Ancestry' quotations and sayings.
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A grandfather is no longer a social institution. - Men do not live in the past. - They merely look back. - Forward is the universal cry.
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All history shows the power of blood over circumstances, as agriculture shows the power of the seeds over the soil.
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Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
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Breed is stronger than pasture.
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Consider whether we ought not to be more in the habit of seeking honor from our descendants than from our ancestors; thinking it better to be nobly remembered than nobly born; and striving so to live, that our sons, and our sons' sons, for ages to come, might still lead their children reverently to the doors out of which we had been carried to the grave, saying, "Look, this was his house, this was his chamber."
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Good blood - descent from the great and good, is a high honor and privilege. - He that lives worthily of it is deserving of the highest esteem; he that does not, of the deeper disgrace.
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He that can only boast of a distinguished lineage, boasts of that which does not belong to himself; but he that lives worthily of it is always held in the highest honor.
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Honorable descent is, in all nations, greatly esteemed. It is to be expected that the children of men of worth will be like their progenitors; for nobility is the virtue of a family.
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I am no herald to inquire after men's pedigrees: it sufficeth me if I know of their virtues.
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It is a noble faculty of our nature which enables us to connect our thoughts, sympathies, and happiness, with what is distant in place or time; and looking before and after, to hold communion at once with our ancestors and our posterity. There is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart. Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness of an alliance with excellence which is departed; and a consciousness, too, that in its acts and conduct, and even in its sentiments and thoughts, it may be actively operating on the happiness of those that come after it.
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It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. - They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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It would be more honorable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
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My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.
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Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding nobility of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
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Nothing is more disgraceful than for a man who is nothing, to hold himself honored on account of his forefathers; and yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree. - She did not receive Plato as a noble, but made him so.
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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
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