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“Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?”

Use Blood Noble Display Portraits Ancestry Pedigree

Author:Juvenal

“What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.”

Blood Slave Coward Alas Ancestry

Book:An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

“I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.”

Ifs Knows Kind Answers Morning Know How Generations Blood Amount Racism Dear Veins Amusing Ancestry Postcards

Book:Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962

Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962

“Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.”

Blood Cry Mouths Thirds Relation Rate Ancestry Vapor

Author:Pierre Charron

“Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.”

Long Lines Destiny Blood Genius Streams Grandparent Ancestry Parents And Grandparents Long Lines

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was the conquerers' side, the side of the French Jesuit missionaries that came to live in what is now Ontario.”

Persons Stories Found Sides Heard Blood Ancestry Ontario Jesuit

Author:Joseph Boyden

“There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.”

Wells America Culture Violence Blood Identity Building Native Genocide Relative Ashes Ancestry Pun Wreckage Personal Identity Nexus

Author:Anne Waldman

“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.”

Language Memories Blood Linked Ancestry

Author:Joyce Carol Oates