Quotes About Ancestry

We are spawn of woodland apes. No code has been undone. Neither faith nor reason will deliver us. We must look to the trees.

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.

more Irish than French).

Although she never went to the synagogue...Grandma [Lausch], all the same, burned a candle on the anniversary of Mr. Lausch's death, threw a lump of dough on the coals when she was baking, a kind of offering, had incantations over baby teeth and stunts against the evil eye. It was kitchen religion and had nothing to do with the G-d of the Creation who turned back the waters and exploded Gomorrah, but it was on the side of religion at that.

Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es um es zu besitzen.

Wohl dem, der seiner Väter gern gedenkt, Der froh von ihren Taten, ihrer Größe, Den Hörer unterhält und still sich freuend Ans Ende dieser schönen Reihe sich Geschlossen sieht!

out of the following lineage and circumstances: from the seed of the woman (any possible man).

My great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way, and rowing another.

As I child, I came to this idea with a horrified fascination. Once upon a time, I wasn't here. Before that, my parents weren't here. And before that…

Dr. Henry Templeton got the drop on me after I killed his grandfather before he was born. Apparently, that wasn't enough to stop the bastard.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.

How long is the Tale? she had asked, and Mrs. Underhill had said: you and your children and your children's children will all be buried before that Tale's all told.

There were the eyebrows, for one thing. He was convinced that the single eyebrow which some, but not all of them, had inherited from Violet had something to do with it. August

Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yetIn his own worth.

I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.

Some of our people that are dead took the original of their death here.

Vi imagens rápidas e apagadas na minha cabeça, frase inteiras pronunciadas rapidamente, um sussurro. Me dei conta de que não vinham corretamente os tempos verbais, culpa daquele despertar desordenado. O tempo é um respiro, pensei, hoje sou eu, daqui a pouco minha filha, tinha acontecido com a minha mãe, com todas as minhas antepassadas, talvez ainda acontecesse a elas — a elas e a mim, simultaneamente, acontecerá.