Quotes About Ancestry

ten or twelve men, especially between brothers and between fathers and sons; but the offspring of these unions are counted as the children of the man with whom a particular woman cohabited first.

I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out

I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other. I could have had different ancestors, after all. I could have fluttered from another nest or crawled bescaled from under another tree. Nature's wardrobe holds a fair supply of costumes: spider, seagull, field mouse. Each fits perfectly right off and is dutifully worn into shreds.

Mamaji remembered, Father dreamed.

Even your breakfast burrito plays a role; Lieberman's investigations had revealed that as our diet shifted over the centuries from chewy stuff like raw roots and wild game and gave way to mushy cooked staples like spaghetti and ground beef, our faces began to shrink. Ben Franklin's face was chunkier than yours; Caesar's was bigger than his.

Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Wilson called those forces the biophilia hypothesis, which literally means "love of living things" but translates more closely to "Your brain may not remember, but your body will never forget that animals have guarded us since the Stone Age." Why

He was born Michael Randall Hickman,

What if it was true - what Elend had told his mother? What if he was cursed because the blood of the Demon King ran in his veins? His family fortunes had certainly fallen over the past thousand years - from King of the Seven Realms to starveling street thief.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Edward Campbell Lowe was a radical in his blood and in his bones... his maternal grandfather had famously made a bonfire with a valuable portrait of the Marquess of Bute because, he had declared, it was more than a man could stomach to encounter a Tory every morning before breakfast.

1059The egg it is the source of it all. 'Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

Vengo de lejos, de una fuerte ancestralidad. Yo, que vengo del dolor de vivir. Y ya no lo quiero.

The only thing the English have left is their past.

We are all citizens of history.

Yonder lies the castle of my father. —TONY CURTIS (ATTRIB.),

Yonder lies duh castle of my fuddah.

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

When you become a great man, you meet kinsfolk you never knew you had.

Family name and paternity are two different things, but but one must start somewhere.

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.

She enjoyed being told off by them. She could hear the rhythms of her own voice, her mother's voice, her grandmother's voice, every relieved cranky woman from the beginning of time.

We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in these islands for over 100 generations, will always have the moral right to the lands of Hawai'i now and forever, no matter what any court says.

I saw her future in my body and face, and her past was alive in me.