When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
Alex Haley

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

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Thomas Overbury

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.
Thomas John Barnardo

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.
Jeff Hawkins