“So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.”
Don Marquis
“The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of incandescent terror.”
T.S. Eliot
“There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.”
William Jennings Bryan
“The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours”
Sigmund Freud
“Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits”
Charles Darwin
