Quotes About Ancestry

order all my relatives and heirs to put no other stone nor shield of arms in my house

generation earlier, Manuel's father had sent ships to intercept Columbus.

Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.

How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia's mother and father, because of her mother's and father's mothers and fathers.

Pensai a quanti luoghi ci sono nel mondo che appartengono così a qualcuno, che qualcuno ha nel sangue e nessun altro li sa.

The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children's children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future.

We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost.

Those who are horrified at Mr. Darwin's theory, may comfort themselves with the assurance that, if we are descended from the ape, we have not descended so far as to preclude all hope of return.

Das Blut allein macht lange noch den Vater nicht.

Grandfather Michael

8I have charity for the Jew (I say Jew, because I mean them from whence I came). 9

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever.

Every creature born in the flesh carried the genes of an ancestor who had lived through the most savage punishment this would could inflict.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.

You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?" -- Sandre to Catriana

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

A?tept?rile fa?? de p?rin?i scad ?i devin tot mai u?or de suportat odat? ce ai descoperit cel?lalt arbore de familie, cel de care depinde via?a sufletului t?u.