Quotes About Ancestry

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

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

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.