Quotes About Ancestry

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Better to be with the ancestors than to live bonded to somebody else, who might be kind, who might be cruel, who might even make you master to many slaves of your own, but was still master over you.

Go to Hanover and take a name like Everton or Courtney or Fitzharold, a name that sound like both mother and father raise me.

We all have names we don't know about.

We all have names we don't know about.

some historians reckon that, by the second century CE, the majority of the free citizen population of the city of Rome had slaves somewhere in their ancestry.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

My name is Fitzgerald O'Neill Dawson. My mother was born in Ireland and she landed all her love for the Old Country right smack on my head with a single name.

Thus it happened that the great-grandsons of Yellow Hair, Custer, were counting coup on the Blue Coats of 1973. For

For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever.

Our stories must be passed to our sons and daughters, for with but one generation, history and truth are lost forever.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Aryan race occupied Europe north of Greece and Italy: the Keltic, the western; the Teutonic, the central; the Slavonic the eastern; and these, in turn, had ramified into new subdivisions or tribes. To

Always, in the Bull Court, our most precious trophies were the gifts of the dead.

It's not the impression you make, it's the impression you leave. -A Tennessee woman remembering her Old Southern grandmother

Your ancestors are a ladder; upon them climb.

Who you come from is part of who you are. How do you just let that be stolen from you?

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

The Ankh represents the connection all life has to that which has gone before, the umbilicus. It is the sign of life infused into humans from the divine spark and thence from human to human. The Ankh refers to that which is protected, renewed and vitalized; it is the descent of the eternal principle, the Atum, into the physical plane.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

I understand there's a history of madness in your family.

There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.