Quotes About Ancestry

These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners. The Great Spirit above has appointed this place for us, on which to light our fires, and here we will remain. As to boundaries, the Great Spirit knows no boundaries, nor will his red children acknowledge any.

I don't have family in Mexico. Nothing. I'm just from Spain.

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

My grandparents were from Spain, and I had a Spanish passport.

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.

People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

I'm a whole lot more than just Spanish or Irish or whatever, but definitely, it's given me help. It's given me a push, and I'm very proud of my Spanish heritage.

My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.

Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian... and I couldn't understand a word he said.

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.

My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.

I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I'm back there.

My grandparents were born in England but spoke German and had a German name.

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.