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Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.
-Danish proverb
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Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses.
-Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
-Proverb
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From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
-Proverb
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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
-Fred A. Allen
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Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
-Ambrose Bierce
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If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
-Nicholas Boileau
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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
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Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.
-Luther Burbank
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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Breed is stronger than pasture.
-George Eliot
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?
-Hitopadesa
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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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
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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
letter to London Publick Advertiser 1769
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
-Abraham Lincoln
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The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.
-Henry Louis
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
-James Russell Lowell
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High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
-Pietro Metastasio
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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
-Joyce Carol Oates
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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
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Books about Ancestry, Ancestors
