Ancestral Environment

Famous quotes containing the words ancestral and/or environment:

“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.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“... several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity ...”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)