Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace..
We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively..
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition..
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..
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black..
There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that u….
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us..
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride..
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had any….
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 ….
The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall..
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers..
Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage..
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage….
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy..
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding..
I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry..