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Ancestry QuotesFamous Ancestry quotes by popular authors such as Nicholas Murray Butler, Alexander Dumas, Helen Keller, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Voltaire and others.
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[highlight-text]The wisdom of our ancestors.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at table.
Italian Proverb
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[highlight-text]Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]My father was a Creole his father a Negro and his father a monkey; my family it seems begins where yours left off.
Alexander Dumas
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[highlight-text]A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
Nicholas Murray Butler
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[highlight-text]People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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[highlight-text]Men who look young act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.
Robertson Davies