Quotes about Ancestry
What I am has been to a considerable extent determined by what my forebears were, by how they chose to treat this place while they lived in it;
- Wendell Berry
All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.
- William Faulkner
At the table, where food and stories are passed from one person to another and one generation to another, is where each of us learns who we are, where we come from, what we can be, to whom we belong, and to what we are called.
- Leonard Sweet
There is no grater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.
- Carl Jung
It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.
- George Bernard Shaw
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
- Woodrow Wilson
A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.
- Anonymous
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Born of a noble father and a saintly mother, President Hinckley learned as a young boy the truths of the restored gospel from his faithful parents. He came to respect deeply and value highly his pioneer heritage.
- Joseph Wirthlin
If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.
- Mike Huckabee
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
- Khalil Gibran
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
- John Quincy Adams