I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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 used to take months.
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.
A Nation. . . is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors
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.
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.
There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea
The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered.
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 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 is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.