All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
Ancestors Quotes
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.
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.
It takes at least three generations to be accepted in Ford County. Regardless of money or breeding, one cannot simply move there and be trusted. A dark cloud of suspicion hangs over any newcomer… The people there are exceedingly warm and gracious and polite… They nod and speak to everyone on the downtown streets. They […]
