135 Quotes About Ancestry

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.

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

I got very interested, and I started researching my own ancestors. It's been a passion and a hobby since then.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.