Quotes About Ancestry

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in the eye

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.

People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

NEVER forget where you came from it might save you from where you could end up.

Swann's illness was the same that had killed his mother, who had been attacked by it at precisely the age which he had now reached. Our existences are in truth, owing to heredity, as full of cabalistic ciphers, of horoscopic castings as if there really were sorcerers in the world. And just as there is a certain duration of life for humanity in general, so there is one for families in particular, that is to say, in any one family, for the members of it who resemble one another.

parents were dead. We hadn't found his birth parents yet. He hadn't gone to college, his high school records were archived somewhere—we had unis working on it—and his elementary school

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.