You should study the Peerage… It is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
Ancestors Quotes
Nearly every man is a firm believer in heredity until his son makes a fool of himself.
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)
