Quotes About Ancestry

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

We are all descended from monsters.

It seemed that our family had been on this land for thousands of years; that we had sprung from the earth, born of its flesh like a tree or a flower, deep-rooted, not by our feet, but by our hearts.

It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.

There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.

It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of the Irish mind.

My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.

I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.