Ancestor Quotes
No.	Quotation	Last Name	First Name
1	Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.	Addison	Joseph
2	Honorable descent is, in all nations, greatly esteemed. It is to be expected that the children of men of worth will be like their progenitors; for nobility is the virtue of a family.	Aristotle
3	They who depend on the merits of ancestors, search in the roots of the tree for the fruits which the branches ought to produce.	Barrow
4	Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one.	Nixon	Howard Kenneth
5	It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.	Plutarch
6	Distinguished birth is like a cipher: it has no power in itself like wealth, or talent, or personal excellence, but it tells, with all the power of a cipher, when added to either of the others.	Boyes
7	When real nobleness accompanies the imaginary one of birth, the imaginary mixes with the real and becomes real too.	Breville
8	Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite.	Burke	Edmund
9	We will inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.	Chapman
10	It is a shame for a man to desire honor only because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.	Chrysostom

Result Page : 1 2 3 4 5

44 quotations on Ancestor

Search Now: