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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 | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants. | Danish Proverb | Sayings of Danish Origin |
| None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. | Edgar Watson Howe | 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author |
| Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA |
| I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. | Fred A. Allen | 1894-1957, American Radio Comic |
| Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| Breed is stronger than pasture. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. | German Proverb | Sayings of German Origin |
| 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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| Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? | Hitopadesa | 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra |
| They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. | James Russell Lowell | 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor |
| 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 | 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist |
| We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. | Joyce Carol Oates | 1938-, American Author |
| The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. | Luther Burbank | 1849-1926, American Horticulturist |
| Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. | Nicholas Boileau | 1636-1711, French Literary Poet, Critic |
| 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 | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
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| Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. | Ovid | BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet |
| High birth is an accident, not a virtue. | Pietro Metastasio | 1698-1782, Italian Poet |
| Hereditary honours are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. | Plato | BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher |
| It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. | Plutarch | 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer |
| From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honour. | Proverb | |
| Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist |
| Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. | Russian Proverb | Sayings of Russian Origin |
| Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¾ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
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| He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¾ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
| No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¾ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
| 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 | |
| The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have. | Source Unknown | |
| 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 | |
| Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| 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 | 1836-1911, British Librettist |
| My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat. | Will Rogers | 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor |
