Quotes by Ancestry I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. Alan Robinson ancestry knows native-american What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. Alexander Pope ancestry coward blood There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry. Archibald F. Bennett ancestry examination historical The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live. Ashley Montagu ancestry jew people It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own. Ben Jonson ancestry noble honor There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from. Benvenuto Cellini ancestry kind people It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation. Charles Caleb Colton ancestry proud pride The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall. Clarence Day ancestry birth eggs If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet. Clifford D. Simak ancestry mean firsts Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. Daniel Defoe ancestry parent yesterday We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves. Daniel Defoe ancestry thieves race The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission. Edmund Burke ancestry weakness interesting Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. Edmund Burke ancestry unjust birth A man's ancestry is a positive property to him. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton property ancestry men The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well. Elliott Sober ancestry common thinking Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection. Elliott Sober ancestry littles ideas Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics. Elliott Sober ancestry statistics common The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment. Franz Boas ancestry determined character It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance. Frederic G. Kenyon ancestry essentials earth When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke ancestry birth real 1234»
