Quotes About Ancestry

If someone deprives you of history deprives you of your future

If you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.

the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.

Make no mistake. The genes we're born with carry memory. They carry knowledge we've never learned, talents we've never studied, even fear of things that have never frightened us. but someone, in some time out of mind, had these memories. Yes, you might say that all of us are haunted. You might very well say that.?

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A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally!

Blood kin are hard to hide from.

La genealogía de nuestro linaje, como ha sido revelada, no hace remontar su origen a una serie de gérmenes, moluscos o cuadrúpedos, sino al gran Creador.

She had the sea in her blood, and sometimes, if she lay very still at night, with one ear pressed into the mattress, she could even hear the sound of waves. If that wasn't the sign that the sea was in her blood, what could it be?

S? te r?zvr?teÅŸti împotriva eredit??ii înseamn? s? te r?zvr?teÅŸti împotriva a miliarde de ani, împotriva primeicelule.

Seduzidos pelo demônio do Inédito, esquecemos rápido demais que somos os epígonos do primeiro pitecantropo que se pôs a refletir.

S'insurger contre l'hérédité c'est s'insurger contre des milliards d'années, contre la première cellule.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell.

Blood calls to blood. Like to like.

the Afro-American experience, rejecting the false history, spurious logic, and expedient politics that collapse the situations of Afro-Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and indigenous Americans into a single category. He correctly insists that there is no counterpart for any other descent group to the one-drop or any-known-ancestry rule that, with minor exceptions, has historically identified Afro-Americans.

You can never completely escape your DNA.

No matter what his birth certificate said or didn't say, he was Billy Dent's son.

And he said, "It is not that Eleazar knows more Torah than I do but that he is descended from greater men than I am. Happy is the person whose ancestors have gained merit for him. Happy is the person who has a 'peg' on which to hang.

Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.

I am from a rebel blood line.

I lived with my grandmother for a year when I was very young, and even to this day, when I tell my mother events that took place, she can't believe that I can recall that far.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

My predecessors in this business of acting were fully convinced their work would never be recorded, except in the form of reviews or paintings.

My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that.