Quotes About Ancestry

I was born in Pizzoferrato, a little village of 1000, in the Abruzzi region of Italy.

My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?

There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family.

Carl Jung coined the term collective unconscious to refer to the part of the mind that holds ancestral memory, or experience that is common to all humankind. Whereas Freud interpreted dreams on the object level, meaning how the content of the dream related to the dreamer in real life (the cast of characters, the specific situations), in Jungian psychology, dreams are interpreted on the subject level, meaning how they relate to common themes in our collective unconscious.

Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.

The Seder nights... tie me with the centuries before me.

We may not be able to choose our ancestors, but we can attempt to shape our descendants. If we encourage our children to stand on our shoulders, they will certainly see farther than we have. John

He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Blood is not destiny.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

Europe has such an expansive history.

My dad died with a full head of hair, so I have that legacy.

I want to be somewhere that I can call home and leave a legacy.

My father had the curved feet, my mother the legs, so I am a bit of both.

Princess Michael of Kent