{"id":213,"date":"2016-05-13T08:02:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2016-05-13T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:02:33","slug":"Famous_Quotes_about_Ancestry_39_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=213","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes about Ancestry (39 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Breed is stronger than pasture.<\/div>\n
George Eliot<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.<\/div>\n
Russian Proverb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.<\/div>\n
Voltaire<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.<\/div>\n
Robert Louis Stevenson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.<\/div>\n
George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.<\/div>\n
Oliver Wendell Holmes<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.<\/div>\n
Proverb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.<\/div>\n
Mark Twain<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Lord Chesterfield<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.<\/div>\n
Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.<\/div>\n
Seneca<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.<\/div>\n
Plato<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.<\/div>\n
Luther Burbank<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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High birth is an accident, not a virtue.<\/div>\n
Pietro Metastasio<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
W. S. Gilbert<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.<\/div>\n
Fred A. Allen<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.<\/div>\n
Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.<\/div>\n
Nicholas Boileau<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Jonathan Swift<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Quotations 1 to 20 of 39<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNext ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLast<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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