I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. – W. S. Gilbert 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
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 intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. – Jay Chiat Category: architecture
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. – B.C. Forbes Category: Integrity
