Quotes About Ancestry

Healers make the most dreadful enemies, Scion of the House of Strong-in-the-Arm. The knowledge that saves lives can be used to do exactly the opposite. Especially when they have the blood of the Wise Ones in their veins.

It is not to diffuse you that you were born of you your mother and father, it is to identify you...Walt Whitman

Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other place.

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost.

The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution has been arrived at by completely different routes.

The idea that you're made up of the people that come before you and you somehow have some kind of conscious dialog with your genetics - I think it's really deep and interesting stuff.

One's heritage and roots is something to be proud of and cherished.

My Indigenous heritage is something I hold close to my heart.

One becomes oneself when one learns one's history.

we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.

Can you even spell your great-great grandparent's names?

Every family is a ghost story.

One time her father told her Shakespeare was really an Arab. 'Just look at his name: It's an Anglicization of Sheikh Zubayr,' he said with a straight face.

We all need a story of where we came from and how we got here. Otherwise, how could we ever put down our tender roots and stay.

Fathers - half of anyone's life seemed to be about who fathered them.

Get off this estate. What for? Because it's mine. Where did you get it? From my father. Where did he get it? From his father. And where did he get it? He fought for it. Well, I'll fight you for it.

Our own lineage split off from that of chimpanzees roughly seven million years ago.

In the 1400s, people began to use a new word to define a group of animals that shared the same blood: a race.

Today's Europeans are fairly uniform, genetically speaking. But that uniformity came out of a biological blender.

By one estimate, genealogy has now become the second-most-popular search topic on the Internet. It is outranked only by porn.

Sabe, Daniel? A veces pienso que Darwin se equivocó y que en realidad el hombre desciende del cerdo, porque en ocho de cada diez homínidos hay un chorizo esperando a ser descubierto —argumentaba