Quotes About Ancestry

traditie betekent ook altijd een remmende factor.

Mendel, de Jakob Mendel, Mendel el de los libros.

Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.

All is race - there is no other truth.

The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.

My father chose my name, and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That's enough, I myself choose my way

That was the purpose of habit, in my grandfather's view: to render memory unnecessary.

Hyperbolic myths of origin have from the earliest times served to lend a paradoxical plausibility to the biographies of heroes.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Icelanders are among the most inbred human beings on earth—geneticists often use them for research.

My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won't be reversed: by now the Jonathan's as much an American as I am.

My mother is Lithuanian Australian, and my father was born in Singapore, but he is Pakistani / Saudi Arabian.

My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'

My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.

I have my mother's nose and my father's bone structure, which I've passed on to my children. My eldest daughter and my mother, when she was young, could be sisters.

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

My grandfather John came from Cork. I have six degrees of separation in Ireland.

I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.

While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long line of ne'er-do-wells, especially on my mother's side.

I have rather skinny legs - I blame my dad's side of the family.