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1. Proverb - “One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.”
2. Proverb - “They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them.”
3. Edward Young - “They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge.”
4. Francois Voltaire - “Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”
5. Francois Voltaire - “The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”
6. Unknown - “We did not inherit the land from our forefathers- we are borrowing it from our children.”
7. Unknown - “From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honor.”
8. Richard Brinsley Sheridan - “Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.”
9. David. J. Schwartz, PhD - “Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never — yes, never — sell yourself short.”
10. Dr. Jonas Edward Salk - “Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.”
11. Neal A. Maxwell - “Therefore, though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled handcarts. Those who were righteous in other ages, when the gospel light was snuffed out, will one day commend the current members of the Church who so live that the gospel light increased in its incandescence. Those of ancient Israel who saw many signs and yet episodically relapsed will one day praise those in this dispensation who have believed "because of the word" without being compelled to be humble. (Alma 32:14.) The Lamanites who were righteous in earlier times, especially, will praise their present posterity whose righteousness is bringing a blossoming of their seed. Thus the contemporary righteous will earn the esteem of their admired predecessors. Finally, if we are faithful, even the righteous of the city of Enoch will fall upon our necks and kiss us, and we will mingle our tears with their tears! (Moses 7:63.) Let us, therefore, notwithstanding our weaknesses, be reassured that the everyday keeping of the commandments and the doing of our duties is what it is all about.”
12. Abraham Lincoln - “I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
13. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz - “He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.”
14. Johann Kaspar Lavater - “Never say you know a man till you have divided an inheritance with him.”
15. Doug Larson - “Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.”
16. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”
17. Ralph Waldo Emerson - “A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.”
18. George Eliot - “Breed is stronger than pasture.”
19. Samuel Butler, the Younger - “The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.”
20. Edmund Burke - “People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”
21. Luther Burbank - “Heredity is nothing but stored environment.”
22. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce - “PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.”
23. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce - “GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
24. James Baldwin - “Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”
25. Lucius Annaeus Seneca - “He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another.”
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