So yourself be good, a fig for your grandfather.
Ancestors Quotes
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
From our ancestors come our names; but from our virtues, our honors.
Nothing like blood, sir, in hosses, dawgs, and men.
Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato, the only good belonging to him is under ground.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
A man can’t very well make for himself a place in the sun if he keeps continually taking refuge under the family tree.
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
