It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Ancestors Quotes
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.
Ancestors are initiators. Descendants too often are imitators.
She descended from a long line her mother listened to.
(reply to a journalist’s comment, that the Hungarian refugees arriving at Mascot aerodrome, Australia looked scruffy) Ah, yes, but they will make fine ancestors.
Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite.
