Quotes About Ancestry

Celtic you'll live and Celtic you'll die.

Only unhappiness raises us up — and the tedium we draw from that unhappiness is as heraldic as being the descendant of distant heroes.

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

I think Compton is definitely a part of my, my family history - a part of me.

I don't have any angel blood, as far as I know.

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.

I mean, my dad is half-Armenian, his father is 100%, and I actually think he has Armenian citizenship. Apparently, the Kardashians and me are the big celebrities over in Armenia.

My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was.

My father is a Japanese-American and my mother is a Caucasian. So obviously, New Year's Day is big for our family, you know, oshogatsu. We had obon festivals every year. All those things.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

My grandad was a fisherman and my dad was a fisherman.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

I think you will find that a lot of young African-Americans are really searching for, 'Who am I?' and 'Where did I come from?' and 'What is my past?'

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.

I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.

I think that's something that we as black people in this country have been robbed of. I compare it to my brother's wife, who is Hispanic. She was born in America but her parents are from Honduras. She speaks Spanish. She knows the culture. But most black people, we were robbed of that. We don't know our heritage.

My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

I don't like the term 'dynasty.'