Quotes About Ancestry

Dad's mother and aunt were actresses.

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

My father was Australian.

My family's from Eastern Europe.

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that.

If we follow the ancestral line of our umbilical cord from our mother, to her mother's mother, her mother's mother's mother, and so on, eventually we will reach our primal mother—the one we all share.

Just as you can feel connected to your line of human mothers through your belly button, you can feel an ultimate connection to the Earth mother on whom all of our lives depend.

debía acreditar que entre sus antepasados no existía ningún converso musulmán o judío.

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

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

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

Write what should not be forgotten.

But what have Cortes and Pizarro or the others to do with me? You carry them in your blood as I carry the blood of Montezume; expeditions of them are harbored by your heart and your mind carries their supply trains. You've changed your helmet for a frontier hat while I have changed my robes for overalls and a black leather jacket. The costumes may have changed but the blood is still the same, gringo.

Your ancestral homeland is Queens, fuckface.

Human life is given meaning, focus, direction: by the past. In: BBC4 The Road to Palmyra

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

Thinking about your ancestors makes you smarter. A research team led by Peter Fischer found that spending a few minutes contemplating your family tree (as opposed to contemplating a friend, or a shopping list, or nothing at all) significantly boosted performance on tests of cognitive intelligence. Their hypothesis is that thinking about our connections to the group increases our feelings of autonomy and control.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.

My father is from the village of Beranci, Macedonia, and my mother is from Greece.

I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.

My mother is from Greece: she comes from Vrahos, a small village in Kastoria.

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

My parents hail from a village near Mysore.