Quotes About Ancestry

Ye are of your father the devil… there is no truth in him…. he is a liar, and the father of it.

And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

What color should be seen Where our fathers' homes have been But their own immortal Green?

I [Paul] am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee.

Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents.

What is a seed if not the purest kind of memory, a link to every generation that has gone before it?

He traced his lineage to the splendid, mysterious Etruscan civilization, based in today's Tuscany

Her family was of obscure origin;

he married Atia, a member of the Julian family.

The Julii traced their ancestry to before the city's foundation, traditionally set at 753 B.C.

Cicero could not boast a long line of noble ancestors, as his colleagues and competitors constantly did

In Appalachia, everyone has a fierce granny story.

that four hundred years of careful in-breeding should amount to nothing more.

Atticus Pünd had no time for religion. During the war, he had been persecuted not for what he believed but for what he was, a Greek Jew whose great-grandfather had emigrated to Germany sixty years before he was born, unaware that although he was bettering his own life, his decision would lead to the extinction of almost his entire bloodline.

My mom's father came from a family of 11 children who came over from the island of Ischia, Italy, and settled in Providence, RI. Her mother was part of the large community of French-speaking Canadians who settled in Woonsocket, RI.

I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.

My mother's father was the behavioral psychologist, John B. Watson.

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

It's an exciting feeling going to Puerto Rico. To go back where my dad was born, my bloodline, it means a lot to me to reach out to my fans in Puerto Rico.

I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico.

My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.