Quotes About Ancestry

The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

I have never felt any connection with my family. There is—I must say simply—something in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.

My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.