Ancestry Quotes. QuotesGram

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

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.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

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

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.