Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. – Van Wyck Brooks Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground. – Sir Thomas Overbore Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. – James Russell Lowell Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. – Tennessee Williams Category: Failure
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. – William Lloyd Garrison Category: Black History
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. – Johann Kaspar Lavater Category: Eyes
