Quotes about Ancestry
May your names never go unspoken and your stories forever be told.
- Lisa Wingate
As Abba Eban, Israel's Foreign Minister from 1966 to 1974, expressed it: "Israel is the only nation whose citizens live on the same land, speak the same language and practice the same religion as their ancestors did 3,000 years ago.
- Dennis Prager
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
- Abraham Lincoln
From the line of Nathan came Mary the mother of Jesus. From Solomon came Joseph, Mary's husband. The Lord Jesus Christ received the blood line and the legal title to the throne of David through Nathan and Solomon.
- J. Vernon McGee
I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
- Madeleine Albright
History is but a collection of epitaphs.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
- St. John Chrysostom
Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will.
- Og Mandino
We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living
- Confucius
Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledger book? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
- Cormac McCarthy
Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.
- Confucius
My grandfather told me our history through his stories about all the great Zulu battles.
- John Kani