Quotes About Ancestry

No matter where life takes you, don't forget where you came from.

We are not our blood

He had more stories of his son from a single year, I thought, than my father had of me in all eternity.

When Trump in 2006 suddenly paid more than $10 million in cash to buy a huge patch of land in northeast Scotland, his mother's native country, with the goal of building a golf resort, it wasn't clear where he had come up with the money to do so.

Trump was neither Jewish nor Swedish; Fred Trump, a first-generation American born to German parents, had developed the habit of telling people the family was Swedish because they had so many Jewish tenants and, after World War II, he did not want to repel them. Donald perpetuated the fiction for many years.

You ask: What is the meaning of "homeland"? They will say: The house, the mulberry tree, the chicken coop, the beehive, the smell of bread, and the first sky. You ask: Can a word of eight letters be big enough for all of these, yet too small for us?

Grandfather! I am the last of the living in this desert.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

It is the right of the grandfather to tell the grandson later what was said while in the womb. It is the right of the grandfather to give the name that will serve as a life program to its bearer. Grandfather

lineage is only the normal marker of passing time.

whatever their ancestry – assumed all this would last forever, for the empire was eternal.

We, who work every day just to survive, swear on the blood of our ancestors that we will never allow dams across our rivers. We are simple Indians and mestizos, but we would rather die than stand by as our land is flooded. We warn our Colombian brothers: stop working for the construction companies.

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.

It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry.

Her great-great-great-great-great grandmother had been burned as a witch.

And this is about the way the Salinas Valley was when my grandfather brought his wife and settled in the foothills to the east of King City.

It's like you said about knowing people. I hate her because I know why she went away. I know--because I've got her in me His head was down and his was voice was heartbroken. You've got the other too. Listen to me! You wouldn't even be wondering if you didn't have it. Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Whatever you do, it will be you who do it--not your mother.

And of course they were descended from the ancient kings of Ireland, as every Irishman is.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I guess getting down on your knees runs in the family