Quotes About Ancestry

I come from generations of farmers.

Most people aren't Republicans four generations down from a president.

You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

The Russell side of my family is a clan with some serious genetics.

My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

My father's family is German and Czech.

I don't think I have enough German blood in me to get into the royal family.

I miei padri, che rivivono in me e che hanno indicibilmente sofferto, lo sentono. Tutta la mia sostanza vitale lo sente. No, tu non puoi comprendere, Giulietta. Chi non è mai stato odiato a cagione della sua razza non può comprendere

Genealogical trees do not flourish among slaves.

cette volonté de partir ne me semblait pas venir de moi seule. Souvent elle me paraissait émaner de générations en arrière de moi ayant usé dans d'obscures existences injustes l'élan de leur âme et qui à travers ma vie poussaient enfin à l'accomplissement de leur libération. Serait-ce donc le vieux rêve de mon enfance, qui me tenait toujours, de venger les miens par le succès ?

I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.

My grandfather was a polygamous man, and he had two wives, and between him and his two wives, we are about 200 or so in our family.

My father and his brothers never mentioned to their English wives and children that they were Jewish. Being Hungarian was exotic and foreign enough to begin with, and so long as they were not asked, they found it easier, from 1919 on, to let the matter drop.

These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

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.

I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil's father, Ike Everly.

If Darwin's theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes.

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to any other; none of them is more primitive than any other. We are all modern races of exactly equal status, evolutionarily speaking.