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
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
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. – Edward W. Howe Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. – Ambrose Bierce Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. – Carl W. Buechner Category: Memory
Its life isnt it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels. – Katharine Hepburn Category: Time
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. – Woodrow Wilson Category: History
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great. – Isaac Watts Category: Change
