Quotes About Ancestry

If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind.

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

I'd like to thank Mom and Dad, just for the genetics.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

I don't know anyone on my mom's or dad's side that was a musician.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.

When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground. we never forget them.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.