The lesson of the tremendous days through which we are passing is that men cannot live upon the achievements of their forefathers, but must themselves renew them – We cannot escape the elementary facts of life – that for a people there is nothing for nothing, that what they have they must themselves make, that […]
Ancestors Quotes
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
The cuckoo lays her eggs in another bird’s nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. A man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
They who depend on the merits of ancestors, search in the roots of the tree for the fruits which the branches ought to produce.
Pedigree, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.
Genealogy, n. An account of one’s descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
