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From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. Proverbs Ancestry 239
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Ancestry 131
We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. Junius Ancestry 118
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. Oliver Wendell Holmes Ancestry 116
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Ancestry 115
Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. Proverbs Ancestry 106
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists. Franklin D. Roosevelt Ancestry 97
Breed is stronger than pasture. George Eliot Ancestry 96
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. Robert Louis Stevenson Ancestry 84
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. Proverbs Ancestry 83
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. Joyce Carol Oates Ancestry 83
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. James Russell Lowell Ancestry 81
In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married. Jonathan Swift Ancestry 75
Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. Van Wyck Brooks Ancestry 75
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. Edward W. Howe Ancestry 71
I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry. Maya Rudolph Ancestry 67
If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. Nicholas Boileau Ancestry 66
Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty. Paul Harris Ancestry 66
Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. Luther Burbank Ancestry 66
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain Ancestry 62
Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants. Danish proverbs Ancestry 57
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. Ralph Waldo Emerson Ancestry 56
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Ancestry 53
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. Ovid Ancestry 52
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. W. S. Gilbert Ancestry 49
The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have. Source Unknown Ancestry 47
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. Voltaire (Fran Ancestry 46
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. Plato Ancestry 44
The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground. Sir Thomas Overbore Ancestry 38
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. George Bernard Shaw Ancestry 38
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. Thomas Overbury Ancestry 37
Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? Hitopadesa Ancestry 36
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. Lucan Ancestry 35
High birth is an accident, not a virtue. Pietro Metastasio Ancestry 34
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. Lord Chesterfield Ancestry 32
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. John Phillips Marquand Ancestry 26

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