Quotes About Ancestry

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.

I'm a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six, his family migrated to Argentina. That's where he met my mom. They got married, and moved to Los Angeles - North Hollywood, to be exact.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

My family is from Jamaica, it's why I don't do 'Who Do You Think You Are' because within two or three generations is slavery, and I'd be there two minutes in crying, they're all slaves! So I don't want to do 'Who Do You Think You Are.' It's in my family.

I want to go to Jamaica, actually. My whole family's from there, so I'd like to go there.

My father's from Jamaica.

If you want to go way way back, then I'm Scottish. My great great grandfather was Scottish, James Gordon Harriott, and a white Scotsman too.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

I identify myself as what I am. I'm half Jewish, like Proust. I have no other way to put it.

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

If you research history, I think we are all Jewish. It's the original culture.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

It doesn't matter if someone is your fourth cousin once removed, he is Cousin Jimmy and called that always.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia.

I think everyone wants to know why I look like this. These jokes I make about looking Chinese... My mother's from Hungary and my dad was from Canada. There's a lot of immigration in my past.

other words, he is more closely related to any of the Neanderthal samples, all of which date from at least 30,000 years ago, than he is to any living man, woman or child on the planet.

To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever.