Ancestors Quotes III

ANCESTORS QUOTES III

quotations about ancestry & ancestors

Forge your path. Crack your ancestors wide open. By any means necessary, unearth your roots.

GABBY RIVERA

America #7

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry; and he that is not industrious envieth him that is. Besides, noble persons cannot go much higher; and he that standeth at a stay when others rise can hardly avoid motions of envy.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Here and there a cotter's babe is royal-born by right divine;
Here and there my lord is lower than his oxen or his swine.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After

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It's the land of my ancestors. I need to set my feet on that soil and see how I feel.

RUTH BEHAR

Lucky Broken Girl

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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

TAD WILLIAMS

Shadowrise

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Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors.

CHARLOTTE MACLEOD

The Corpse in Oozak's Pond

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Now, when lesser folk would wither, thou must be true to the blood of thine ancestors. Much greatness is bred in thee; accept now this terrible mantle and take a step nearer thy destiny.

ROBIN JARVIS

The Oaken Throne

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Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave has had kings among his ancestors.

PLATO

Theaetetus

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The stream is brightest at its spring,
And blood is not like wine;
Nor honored less than he who heirs
Is he who founds a line.

J.G. WHITTIER

Amy Wentworth

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Each of us is entitled to claim the forebears who suit him, who explain him in his own eyes. How often have I not changed ancestors!