Quotes About Ancestry

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from.

Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people.

Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

We and future generations should never forget them, Always remember them.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

I was born in the house my father built.

Power is knowing your past.

My forefathers didn't come over on the May-flower, but they met the boat.

There is a fine breed for you, Irish-Indian. My family crest would be a Shillalah with a Tomahawk on one end.

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.

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.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

But blood is never left up to you, blood will call to blood. You can't deny your own kin.

It is a striking fact that the history of each science shows continuity back to its first use of measurement, before which it exhibits no ancestry but metaphysics.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.