Best 137 quotes in «ancestry quotes» category

To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled.

We are free falling backward through time, reincarnating ourselves from our past, reflecting the chaotic energy of the present.

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.

We are all descendants of murderers and thieves.

We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing.

We are the accumulation of the dreams of generations

When you trace your genealogy, you find connections to many of the people and events that shaped history. History is not the story of some old irrelevant strangers. No. History is your story. Your family was there - your grandmothers and grandfathers, uncles and aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces. If not for them, you wouldn't even be here.

We do not brag about ancestors that were not great

We should feel empowered by where we came from and who we are, not hide it. It is important to acknowledge that everything we do affects our ancestors as much as they have affected us.

What did it mean, all this personal looking backward? What were people hoping to find? What bearing, really, did their ancestry have on who they were now?

When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hearing. I had to, or I never would have made it past the first letter. If I stopped to think about my Grandpa writing to my Grandma, knowing how much he loved her and how many years he spent without her after her death, I knew I wouldn’t be able to make it through just one letter without an onslaught of tears. And it was Grandpa, a voice I knew so well. One that I miss terribly.

You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.

Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics.

Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection.

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

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 anything else to be proud of.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

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.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.