Quotes About Ancestry

History is a ghost story.

I covered his thumbprint with my thumb and considered for the first time that Papa might have been more than just old pictures - old, repeated stories.

Only in the most literal sense are we born on the day we leave our mother's womb. In the larger, truer sense, we are born of the past - connected to its fluidity, both genetically and experientially.

Each of us is born with a history already in place

Your people have lost the vision and vitality of your ancestors (73).

Family tradition and genealogical history, upon which much of Sir Everard's discourse turned, is the very reverse of amber, which, itself a valuable substance, usually includes flies, straws, and other trifles; whereas these studies, being themselves very insignificant and trifling, do nevertheless serve to perpetuate a great deal of what is rare and valuable in ancient manners, and to record many curious and minute facts which could have been preserved and conveyed through no other medium.

Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period.

All however agreed, that the spot was fatal to the Ravenswood family; and to drink of the waters of the well or even approach its brink, was ominous to a descendant of that house, as for a Grahame to wear green, a Bruce to kill a spider, or a St. Clair to cross the Ord on a Monday.

El antepasado de toda acción es el pensamiento».

The Simiadae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and Old World monkeys; and from the latter at a remote period, Man, the wonder and the glory of the universe, proceeded.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

I come from a long line of generations!

You came here, your parents and their parents and their parents, and you always seem to have just arrived and yet never seem to have actually arrived.

Paternal Grandfather Remember the simple rule: you are to your father as your father is to your grandfather. Therefore, if you are male and terrified of your father, you should be exponentially more terrified of your grandfather. There are other issues related to your Earthling grandfather that are beyond the scope of this volume.

Hugh C. Murray of the Cal S. Ct. ruled that the Act of April 16, 1850, Section 14, which forbade "Blacks and Indians" from testifying in favor of or against a white man, was applicable to the Chinese, who were legally Indians because both groups were descended from the same Asiatic ancestors.

Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

Our parents are the primal source. We make our own lives, but our origin stories are theirs. They go back with us to the beginning of time.

The power of blood, Charlie thought, and there was no small degree of pride in the thought. No matter what else you do in this life, no matter where you go, what you profess to believe, you can't escape the power of blood.

All Hungarians are supposed to be descendants of a lost tribe of Martians who came to colonize the earth. That's why their language has nothing in common with other European languages.

On the green they watched their sons Playing till too dark to see, As their fathers watched them once, As my father once watched me...

...the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Here I am trying to breed things out of my bloodline and ye neglect to tell me that, in marrying ye, I could be breeding other odd traits right back in? Did ye nay consider what sort of children two people such as we are might breed?" "Nay, I didnae, but now that ye mention it, 'tis an intriguing thought. Mayhap a lad who can tear his enemy's throat out then lick himself clean afterward." Bridget