Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to people better than you are.
Ancestors Quotes
They that on glorious ancestors enlarge – Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
To forget one’s ancestor’s is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root.
Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. (Ezekiel 17:2)
One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.
We live in a great and free country only because our forefathers were willing to wage war rather than accept the peace that spells destruction.
It is more important to know where your children are tonight than where your ancestors were when the Mayflower sailed.
They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose your ancestors carefully. Although both my parents died young, I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors. My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth, at the age of sixty-seven, but […]
