Quotes About Ancestry

You can't know who you are unless you know where you came from and give praise to those who laid the foundation.

My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

A preoccupation with money and, especially, with what money meant was, in our family, an inherited thing. My father's father, Jack, who died before I was born, was very much possessed by the idea that money was freedom.

There is no moral high ground from which President Trump or any of his followers can tell anyone to leave this country, because they are not the first inhabitants of this land. They should instead look into their history to learn where, when and why their ancestors came to this country.

I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

I discovered I'm 60 per cent Viking. Well, more Danish, I suppose. I'm also two-and-a-half per cent Neanderthal.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

I come from a long line of Democrats.

Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver.

Obviously I descend from Africa.

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

I am of an African-Jamaican descent.

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'

My great-grandfather was the last ruler of the Choctaw Nation, and from birth, I was taught that my role was to restore the power and the glory to my bloodline.

I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.

We should all realize where we have come from our learnings and teachings and set examples for future generations.

I forgot for a second that he was my ancestral enemy, and felt bad for him; then i consoled myself that bird poop brings good luck