Quotes About Ancestry

White Americans, stop apologizing; we live in the greatest country in the history of mankind, and it's there because of our ancestors - those who came to this country and did their very best. And every generation has gotten better at what we're good at.

When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

Why would you want to just make up a middle name when the name should be coming from family and previous generations? I think it's really important.

My great-grandparents have some beautiful sculptures which have come down the generations. They are priceless and whenever I look at them, I am inspired.

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

I went to private school, but I've got family from North Carolina.

My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

My mum's father was a producer and her mother was an actress, so my mum was fully behind me going into acting.

We must be sure that Canadians realize that our political differences with the Communist government in China has nothing to do with the country of China, or its people. The millions of Canadians with Chinese ancestry are not connected to our diplomatic differences with Beijing.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.

Since I descend just as directly from Catherine de' Medici as I do from Diane de Poitiers, I have no personal interest in damning the one while glorifying the other.

And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.

Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading.

I'm not technically royal.

We Robertses have too many teeth for our mouths.