Quotes About Ancestry

The notes one of my uncles (who had the same kind of curiosity in collecting family anecdotes) once put into my hands, furnished me with several particulars relating to our ancestors.

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie - father of the future Alex Dumas - was born on February 26, 1714, in the Norman province of Caux, a region of rolling dairy farms that hung above great chalk cliffs on the northwest coast of France.

My mother was related to four of Jamaica's oldest families, and to say merely that she was out of the top drawer would not convey the quality of her breeding.

Not many Rabbitts in this country are related to me.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.

I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.

I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living.

I'm full Hispanic.

The idea that all we have is everything that's come before us, and we are the accumulated weight of our own personal histories, is a beautiful concept. And yet it also leaves you asking, 'Is that all there is? Is that all that defines us? Is that all we have?'

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

Cuba is part of who I am. It is my family's homeland.

It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few generations.

Where you come from is such a huge part of who you are today.

My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

I come from very humble beginnings.