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AncestryFound 31 items. Pages: 1 2 3 >>sort alphabetically | sort by highest rating  (155 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 Rate this quote: (bad)<  > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (151 votes) We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.Joyce Carol Oates 1938-, American Author Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (139 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (137 votes) He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (137 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (135 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (134 votes) Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (129 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (124 votes) Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (118 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (114 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (111 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (102 votes) From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.Proverb Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (98 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 Overbore Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (96 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website Found 31 items. Pages: 1 2 3 >> |
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