Quotes About Ancestry

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Not a stone but has its history.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

History is as Old as My Grandfather

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

History is the third parent.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.

Each of us is born with a history already in place

I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.

Home is where we have a history.

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.