Quotes About Ancestry

I know history. There are many names in history but none of them are ours.

There are many names in history but none of them are ours.

The moral contradictions of our ancestry should not prevent us from reaching a realistic assessment of who we are. Whehn we do that, high hopes are still possible.

The moral contradictions of our ancestry should not prevent us from reaching a realistic assessment of who we are. When we do that, high hopes are still possible.

Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.

You don't know your father, do you?" I shook my head. "No. All I know is he must have had wicked cool hair." Dimitri glanced up, and his eyes swept me. "Yes. He must have.

Blood doesn't lie

These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers. (1 CHRONICLES 6:19B)

because everything is connected to everything else, and the more we know about who and where we come from, the more we know about where we're headed.

Jesus is said to be a priest in the order of Melchizedek, a priest of God Most High who is a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

It comes from exercising care in the choice of parents.

He's a man by ancestry, a Martian by environment.

We citizens of Luna are jailbirds and descendants of jailbirds. But Luna herself is a stern schoolmistress; those who have lived through her harsh lessons have no cause to feel ashamed.

It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

Just because your people have lived here for a long time doesn't make it yours. Do you have a deed?

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you.

Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out how they're related.

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle.

ella. Pari es sangre de mi sangre. Y no tardaré en conocer a sus hijos y a los hijos de sus hijos, y mi sangre circula también en las venas de todos ellos. No estoy sola.

Notaba el frío del suelo bajo los pies descalzos y, de pronto, por primera vez desde que habíamos cruzado la frontera, sentí que estaba de vuelta en casa. Después de todos aquellos años, estaba de nuevo en casa, pisando la tierra de mis antepasados.

the seven generations rule, thinking seven generations back and seven generations forward, and seven times seven

a Greimas semantic rectangle, a structuralist schema with alchemical ancestry

The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.