Quotes About Ancestry

My dad grew up in a little place near Charleston called Moncks Corner.

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.

Despite having an Indian grandmother and a Nepalese father, I have never been to India before. I have been to Nepal a couple of times, which isn't that far.

You can just never forget where you came from.

You never forget where you come from.

As an artist, you always want to never forget where you come from.

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

I tell my kids and my grandkids, 'Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.' My grandkids, they didn't go through the hard times as much as other ones in our family did. One thing is to just never forget where you came from and you never forget that nothing is more important than your relationship with Jesus Christ.

I never forget where I come from. It means everything.

I appreciate where I come from. I never forget.

You must never forget where you came from.

It's definitely important to never forget where you're coming from, where you were born and raised.

I'll never forget where I come from. Especially my humble beginnings.

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

I'm half-Chinese and half-Caucasian. My grandparents came here from China. My father was born in New Jersey.

I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started a new life in Slovenia so basically I grew up there.

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

I haven't been to Nigeria, but my dad and I have talked about going. I have a grandma over there who's been here.

I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them.

I'm Cuban. Both my parents are Cuban. My grandparents are, too. Although I have no idea where Fit comes from.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

Mitochondrial genes act like a female surname, which enables us to trace our ancestry down the female line in the way some families try to trace their descent down the male line from William the Conqueror, or Noah, or Mohammed.

I took a drink, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand, repeating the gesture that was made a hundred times by my father and his father and his father's father, eyes half closed as the sharpness of the alcohol replaced the sharpness of grief.

And I am glad, because although no one else in the world remembers him now, he will live inside me as long as I live. We shall die together. This grandfather was the first to make me wish not to die - so that the dead within me should not die. Since then, many departed dead ones have sunk, not into the grave, but into my memory, and I know now that as long as I live they shall live too.