Quotes About Ancestry

Do you know what most people have from their grandmother? A tea set. Or a quilt." Curran smiled. "If your family had a quilt, it would be made out of chimera skin and stuffed with feathers from dead angels.

I believe I've met your grandfather, the Bloody Butcher of Odar. That's correct. I remember now. A delightful man, wonderfully dry sense of humor. Arland blinked. My grandfather has been called many names in his lifetime. Delightful was not one of them. He remembers you also. You tried to poison him. Caldenia waved her fingers. I've tried to poison everyone at one time or another. Don't take it personally.

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played a subtle but important role in my development.

My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.

I never truly got to know my grandfather before he passed away, but he inspires me to search more deeply to understand myself.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I'm only going to have to run.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

His old name was on the toll of the fallen, after all, and beside it was Blackdog Wood, 1159 Burn's Sleep.

But blood is the chain that can never break. (...) And, though we leave the house of our birth, it never leaves us.

People need to know where they came from, Sand. Especially if they've lived generations not knowing.

But blood is the chain that can never break. And, though we leave the house of our birth, it never leaves us. [...] Blood. Of course. This is how you break an unbreakable chain. By dying.

The Fenn had fallen far from their past glories, yet they remembered enough to know their old name. You cannot even make that claim. Your kind walked this Earth when the T'lan Imass were still flesh. From your blood came the Barghast and the Trell. You are Thelomen Toblakai.

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

By the elements, you surely have the blood of Jadrin in your veins. A minx, a trickster, like him!

The power is in the land and in our blood, but we have lost that special connection with the sea. It has been severed.

There was a feyness about him, something tragic, which might be his stolen heritage.

You must go to Old Caradore to take back what is yours, fully and completely. You must become the Dragon Heir, as you are meant to be. It must be done before anything else.