Quotes About Ancestry

I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.

My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

My grandparents had 15 children, my parents had 2 children and I won't be having any child.

I was born in Peebles and my grandparents lived in Colinton so I spent time there.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

Greek blood courses through me.

I'm half Greek, half Australian.

It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.

The Greek side of my family are actually all really fair.

We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans.

I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.

Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to pass from father to son.

My grandfather was a direct descendent of Guru Nanak, which my father also carried forth.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

I hail from a family of musicians for the last 18 generations. My grandfather was a classical singer; his father was a sitar player.

There's been a ham in every generation of our family.

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

Sometimes it is good to think of old things, old ways, and do the old stories when there is nothing to do but wait.

We are, after all, an animal that was brought into being on this biosphere by these processes of sun and water and lead. And if we depart too far from them, we're departing too far from the mother, from our heritage.

Ricordare che un tempo vivevamo in certi luoghi fa parte della nostra auto-riscoperta attuale. Fornisce radici a ciò che definiamo essere umani (etimologicamente qualcosa come essere radicati nella terra).

Comtesse de Chagny, nee de Moerogis de La Martyniere

It was as if she had more than learned it off by heart. Though. it was as if their memory, the memory of all the Corregidora women, was her memory too, as strong with her as her own private memory, or almost as strong. But now she was Mama again.