Ancestry Quotes - Page 3

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.

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

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?

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.

Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

People like to trace their ancestry.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

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 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.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.