Quotes About Ancestry

As this poem illustrates, place is not just location, geography; place is history, family, the shape and context of daily life.

Carlos II, concebido casi milagrosamente de zurrapas seminales, en el último coito de su decrépito padre, es el producto final de docenas de cruzamientos consanguíneos a lo largo de unos cuantos siglos.

El momento presente no tiene más fundamento que su parentesco con el pasado.

I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.

Sin raíces no somos nada, es como si no tuviéramos los pies firmes sobre la tierra. Debe de ser terrible no saber quién es uno, y claro, eso sólo podemos saberlo si conocemos la historia de nuestros mayores.

we regard the earldom as an important family honor. But my father is a good man precisely because he is a good man, not because he possesses an ancient title. And as for Lord Blackwood, I find his title all the more appealing because it represents the nobility of the man standing before you, not of some long-dead ancestor.

Die Geburt von Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset, Earl of Clyvedon, gab Anlass zu großen Feierlichkeiten.

I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.

I'm connected with my indigenous roots.

Of course, I have been influenced by my Punjabi and Hariyanvi roots.

I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.

I think that I did inherit a very expressive face from my mother and my grandmother.

My grandfather is from Burma and while the tanned skin and Cleopatra eyes skipped my genetic make-up, I inherited the full hairy gene.

I come from a line of women who can bake, so I think I've inherited a bit of family knowledge.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.

The stately homes of England!How beautiful they stand,Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land!

The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest ways. She sees it directly; I see its shadow. Still, it pulses in my fingertips, feeds on my consciousness. It is a backdrop for each act, each drama of our lives. I have absorbed a sense of what she has suffered, what she has lost, even what her mother endured and handed down. It is my emotional gene map.

While I am alive I shall never be in such slavery as to forgo my own kindred, or forget the laws of our forefathers.

J'ai rêvé d'être un électron libre mais on ne peut pas se couper éternellement de ses racines.

Contar una aventura no es el objetivo; los personajes ayudan a escuchar a otro, que quizá sea mi hermano, mi prójimo, mi amigo, mi ancestro, mi doble.

We call each other the Hin-Jews because he's Tamilian, and the Tamils of Southern India came from Ethiopia just as the Hebrews from Palestine came from Ethiopia. The DNA is the same.

Aquello que he considerado como apego a la propiedad, no es más que el instinto carnal del campesino, hijo de campesinos, nacido de aquellos que, desde hace siglos, interrogan con angustia el horizonte.