“ Talents are distributed by nature without the slightest regard, or respect, to genealogies, pedigrees, ancestry, and all that kind of thing. ”
- Frederick The Great- Copy
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“ Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
- 954
“ So what we can answer is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it — the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. ”
- Millard Fuller- Copy
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“ Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. ”
- Thomas Overbury- Copy
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“ People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 456
“ I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. ”
- Alex Haley- Copy
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“ I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. ”
- Brendan Behan- Copy
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“ The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. ”
- Randall Jarrell- Copy
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