“My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.”
Will Rogers
“My ancestors didn't come over in the Mayflower -- they met the boat.”
“I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.”
William Lyon Phelps
“There are literally millions of Mayflower descendants.”
Ann Lainhart
“Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.”
Douglas Adams
“GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
Ambrose Bierce
“We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.”
Milan Kundera
