Quotes About Ancestry

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionaries.

The dominant hypothesis remains that we carry the mark of Cain. For example, in his 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature, the Canadian-American psycholinguist Steven Pinker proposed that humanity needs civilization to keep its destructive instincts under control. Since his theory works only if our forebears were hyperaggressive characters, Pinker went for the chimpanzee as ancestral model and cheerfully swept bonobos under the rug, calling them "very strange primates.

The behavior of an individual is therefore determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Who was I to dare to talk to him? In which of Europe's ghettos had my ancestor been huddled when Frederick von Hohenstaufen gave Anno von Hohenfels his bejewelled hand?

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

If you burst a chokepod, and the gas doesn't get me, your grandfather will. Come on.

When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.

Our ultimate goal is the preservation of all Roshar," Dalinar said softly. "We've seen the cost of division in our ranks. Because of it, we failed to stop the Everstorm. But that was just the trial run, the sparring before the real fight. To face the Desolation, I will find a way to do what my ancestor the Sunmaker failed to do through conquest. I will unify Roshar.

This is your heritage. The heritage of warriors who traveled the sky, and will return to the sky.

know, but the way I see it, there's really no pure race. Everybody is mixed with something.

These things we hold on to, they are more than just things. They prove our history, who we are, where we came from.

DeWarenne men love forever

Me exploding at my mother who explodes at me because the explosion of some dark star all the way back struck hard at mother's mother's mother.

it would better become Madam Western to look at home, and remember who her own grandfather was. Some of my family, for aught I know, might ride in their coaches, when the grandfathers of some voke walked a-voot.

I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin.

Ah, one doesn't give up one's country any more than one gives UP one's grandmother. They're both antecedent to choice—elements of one's composition that are not to be eliminated.

A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.

My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I was born with was French: D'Orsay; perhaps an ancestor was amongst those troops that marched to this evocative anthem for the first time as they entered Paris 200 years ago!