“Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.”– Thomas Mann Related Quotes “I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.”– Don Marquis “I don’t believe in being mean to anyone. I’m a really peaceful person. That’s something I get from my family.”– Nick Carter “My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn’t make at my family reunion.”– Wentworth Miller