Quotes About Ancestry

I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

I want to show how strong I am from my roots.

I feel like our history and our roots make us who we are.

Guess will always be loyal and true to its roots.

You can't forget your roots.

I know where I come from and what my roots are.

You can't really run from your roots.

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

You can't run from your roots.

I keep my feet on the ground because of my roots and the way I was raised.

I am very proud of my Australian roots.

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

When I was in school, my first acknowledgement of 'Roots' was Kunta Kinte.

We really wanted our characters to be very Latin-based because we've always been so proud of our roots.

Sometimes it can be easy to forget where your roots are or where you came from.

It is nice to go down the memory lane and remember who I am and what my roots are.

I have roots in Jabalpur and that's as Indian as it can get.

I always had my roots in the past.

There's a rumor that my great-grandmother was 6'7''. I don't know if it's necessarily true, but that's a big woman.

My real last name is Flores, and Milian is actually my mom's maiden name. So it's not made up, which is cool; it runs in the family. And it actually worked out better for my career to have the last name Milian, because Flores kept me in a little box, and no one really associated me with the last name Flores.

I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.