The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
Now, by the honour of my ancestry,
I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine,
And think thee worthy of an empress' love.
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.
And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible.
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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.
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories