Ancestry

(396 votes)   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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(377 votes)   Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(340 votes)   We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Joyce Carol Oates
1938-, American Author

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

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(302 votes)   There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

Laurence Overmire
Poet, Genealogist

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(288 votes)   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

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(274 votes)   He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(273 votes)   My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(265 votes)   Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(263 votes)   Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(257 votes)   From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Proverbs

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(242 votes)   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

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(239 votes)   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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(230 votes)   The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground.

Sir Thomas Overbury

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(224 votes)   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

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