Quotes About Ancestry

Instalados durante millones de años en la patria común africana, evento tras evento y golpe tras golpe, nuestros antepasados forjaron las sucesivas semillas que desembocaron en lo que, para bien o para mal, nos hemos convertido. No hay duda. Somos hijos de la crisis.

El ser humano que olvida sus tradiciones está condenado a perderse a sí mismo, sin raíces, sin un código, sin nada a que aferrarse.

An aunt, who though not a midwife was expert in that kind of work, helped bring forth the child, cleaning his face with butter and, to save money, powdering his thighs with some flour scraped from a crust of bread in lieu of talcum. "So you see, my boy, you come from humble stock," his Aunt Eudore would say, acquainting him of these petty details, and from an early age Jean didn't dare hope for any kind of good fortune in the future.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

Burr had the dark and severe coloring of his Edwards ancestry, with black hair receding from the forehead and dark brown, almost black, eyes that suggested a cross between an eagle and a raven. Hamilton had a light peaches and cream complexion with violet-blue eyes and auburn-red hair, all of which came together to suggest an animated beam of light to Burr's somewhat stationary shadow.

Insanity runs in my family, it practically gallops

Mothwing," she murmured, unable to bear the uncertainty any longer, "who was your father? Was it Tigerstar?" Shock flared in Mothwing's amber eyes. For a moment she hesitated, and then replied, "Yes.

So where did they come from?

You are not descended from the cats that drove us out, and yet you are a true Clan warrior. It is your destiny to restore SkyClan.

There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws.

An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.

I consider it poor historical form to make fun of ancestral mistakes without respecting the eros that was linked to them. We are no less in bondage to the Zeitgeist; folly is handed down, we merely don a new cap.

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

We were Methodists now and didn't worship our ancestors as gods. But the commandments that decreed the one true God also said to honor thy father and mother. So it was right, Mother said, to follow the old ways and esteem our predecessors who had paved the paths upon which we walked.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

He wants to name me officially as heir to Westwood and give me an allowance--quite a big one. And I don't know what to do. He's absolutely certain I'm his grandson. There's a painting of some admiral who's supposed to have my nose…

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.

My dad, he was my role model - my mom died when I was three - and the way we honor our parents is remembering their heritage.