Quotes About Ancestry

Each human is a complex, contradictory story. Some stories within us have been unfolding for years, others are trembling with fresh life as they peek above the horizon. Each is a zigzag of emotional design and ancestral architecture. All the stories in the earth's mind are connected.

Because we are linked by blood and blood is memory without language.

Katherine wouldn't lead all her descendants here for chervil, would she?

You are transformed into one of the gypsy ancestors we have never discussed.

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

How frequently do you look in the mirror? Does your face please you? Are you disgusted to detect familial features? Do you worship or hate your ancestors? Do you consider your image erotic? Do you pretend that you are a star's child? If you squint, does your reflection become abstract? Is abstraction a transcendental escape from identity or a psychotic spasm of depersonalization?

All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.

Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.

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

hijo de gato caza ratones...siempre y cuando sepa que es hijo de gato.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

Every family has its secrets but nothing reveals the truth like DNA

Inheritance is a trickster. One generation may hide its genetic treasures, while the next will put them fully on display.

Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.

Origins sure are powerful and sh*t. You can't shake them.

Pretty much all my life I've wondered about my birth parents, wondered who they were, what they were like. But since I had my children, I don't wonder anymore. Because I look at my kids, and I can see the answer. It's right there in their features, in who they are. Everything that isn't Rick and his family must be from my side. It's my kids who are finally showing me where I come from.

To wit, John Harrison served as the son, grandson, brother, and uncle of one Henry Harrison or another, while his mother, his sister, both his wives, his only daughter, and two of his three daughters-in-law all answered to the name Elizabeth.

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en realidad lo que ha moldeado la historia de la humanidad, al menos a nivel genético, ha sido esa migración femenina realizada paso a paso, de pueblo en pueblo.

People who migrate are usually either dissatisfied at home or ambitious to improve their lot; but upper classes are already successful, and so have no reason to go to a wilderness to start afresh. Plain as these facts are, people still look for distinguished ancestors. It seems not to be enough that one's family tree shows decent, ambitious, God-fearing people; they must be wellborn.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

Titles, then, point backward in time. They have their origin in an unrepeatable past.