Quotes About Ancestry

Bloody footprints staggering through this palace Generation to generation.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

How does knowing where we are from inform who we are now?

Pasa que los cronopios no quieren tener hijos, porque lo primero que hace un cronopio recién nacido es insultar groseramente a su padre, en quien oscuramente ve la acumulación de desdichas que un día serán las suyas.

momma help me turn the face of history to your face. - Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I'm from the Dominican Republic. They're the reason I exist at all. To these roots I owe everything.

Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance. But

Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance.

What is the use of your pedigrees?

All those born in this land before Bharata, All those born after, are called after his name.

Clearly we have all the time in the world," she said crossly. "Feel free to start way back with the dinosaurs—just as long as you get to the Carnevares and Alcantaras sometime.

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

My history is your picnic ground,

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

I've got a huge family back in Ireland, and I've made loads of movies in Ireland.

My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland.

The name is Irish-Gaelic. In old Ireland, the Rabbitts were counselors to the chiefs.

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

I'm from Salford, and I don't have any immediate Irish connection.

My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.