Quotes About Ancestry

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.

I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children.

My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the covered wagons crossing the plains to avoid the dust. However, he always arrived at his destination and did his share of the work.

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

My mum came from an incredibly big family.

I don't know much about my biological background.

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

I've got some alien blood in me.

The majority of my blood is Asian.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

I don't really know anything about my dad. I don't really know too much about his background. He's Jamaican and Jamaicans are usually more athletic. You've seen Usain Bolt.

Europe has been in my bones.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

All my family's from Boston.

History is very much bound up in family experience.

My Grandad boxed.

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.

I'm not sure I really am an entrepreneur. I'm not much of a businessman. I know I'm not a marketing guy. I do have an entrepreneurial lineage, though.