Quotes about Ancestors

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

- Henry David Thoreau

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met 'em at the boat.

- Will Rogers