Quotes About Ancestry

If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

That made him and Highhawk related on their less important paternal side.

The way I see it," King said, "your great-grandfather fought and died because he believed my great-grandfather should stay a slave. I'm supposed to feel all warm inside about that?

Finding a homeland is not the same as dwelling in the place where our ancestors once used to live."   —KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI

So you're telling me that I was Maelgwn's mother?

I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan

It's because you're half NightWing.

Yes, Sunny," said Thorn, her voice falling like drops of water into the stillness between them. "It's because you're half NightWing.

hit a man in the face long enough and he turns for help to his racial memory and tribal gods.

Woman you may be, but descended from a knight, or a crusader.

if you're not in touch with your roots, you feel as if you've lost touch with the world

For generations fathers had watched earth and sea.

And from that time on the boys were no longer called Elder and Younger, but they were given school names by the old teacher, and this old man, after inquiring into the occupation of their father, erected two names for the sons; for the elder, Nung En, and for the second Nung Wen, and the first word of each name signified one whose wealth is from the earth.

The fruit of her life is her grandson who is not yet born.

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!

Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.

inherited along with her dark good looks.

Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

in the best society hardly anyone can be certain who their father is.

The foundation of the Germanic system was blood and kin.