Quotes About Ancestry

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see; or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength—in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

E nós ajoelhamos lá mesmo no convés e agradecemos a Deus por nos ter deixado ver a terra pela qual nossas mães e pais choraram — e viveram e morreram — para ver outra vez.

I would have thought that a book that begins "Dear God" would immediately have been identified as a book about the desire to encounter, to hear from, the Ultimate Ancestor. Perhaps it is a sign of our times that this was infrequently the case.

And we kneeled down right on deck and gave thanks to God for letting us see the land for which our mothers and fathers cried – and lived and died – to see again

The word clann is Gaelic for 'children' and the term clan began to be applied to all those with links, geographical as well as genealogical, with a common name father.

And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies hold the memories of those who came before us, whether it is the features we inherit or a disposition that is etched into our soul.

History is part of our birthright. We must claim it back and make it transform our lives

My father used to say the seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

I will ask you once to put the dark-skinned girl down and leave." Crandle snorted. "And if we don't?" That one eye narrowed slightly. "Then, long after we are gone to the goddess, the grandchildren of the grandchildren of those who witness will whisper fearful stories of the way I broke you.

Why's your name Yolk?' 'Er... don't know. Was my father's name... I guess.' 'Think you're the best part of the egg, do you, Yolk?

First time I ever joint the Chorus," Don Lewiston said, "I forgot the face of my father

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

In the effort to deny from whence we came," Baldwin declared, "we've had to make up a series of myths about it.

Our parents are the root of our body.

He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.