Quotations on Ancestry 8 Quotes Found Displaying 1 through 8
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. - Thomas John Barnardo (Keywords: Character, Ancestry, Importance) 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. - Octavia Butler (Keywords: Work, People, Ancestry, Slavery, Trying) The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. - Ignatius Donnelly (Keywords: Hope, Ancestry, Party, Posterity, Pride) When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. - Alex Haley (Keywords: Family, Ancestry, Earth, Talking) A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. - William Ralph Inge (Keywords: Society, Ancestry, Delusion, Hatred, Nation, United) Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. - Lucan (Keywords: Men, Ancestry, Name, Shadow) 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. - Clifford D. Simak (Keywords: Life, Ancestry, Being, First) 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. - Harlan Stone (Keywords: Equality, Nature, People, Ancestry, Doctrine)
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