(30 quotes found)
“A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground”
Spanish Proverb
“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”
Alex Haley
“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own”
Ovid
“Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.”
Charles Dickens
“One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground”
Samuel Butler
“We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.”
Piers Anthony
“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.”
W. R. Inge
“I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.”
William S. Gilbert
“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.”
George Bernard Shaw
“There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.”
Garrison Keillor
