Ancestors Quotes

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.

A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.

Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to people better than you are.

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.