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Breed is stronger than pasture.
By ancestry, I was born to rule.
People like to trace their ancestry.
Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.
High birth is an accident, not a virtue.
Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.
A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
I've got some Jewish ancestry and I don't like waste.
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.
I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.
I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point.
My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.
We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague.
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.