Quotes About Ancestry

I come from a lineage of ministers.

My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of ministers in my family.

I am extremely proud to be of Tongan and Samoan descent. We are really proud of our culture and, really, just being a minority.

And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.

Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling.

If then the question is put to me whether I would rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet employs these faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.

È proprio vero che il Poeta, o il Filosofo, o l'Artista il cui genio è la gloria della sua epoca, viene ad essere diminuito per il fatto che senza dubbio è storicamente probabile, per non dire certo, che egli è il diretto discendente di qualche selvaggio nudo e bestiale, la cui intelligenza appena bastava a farlo un po' più furbo della volpe, e per ciò stesso molto più pericoloso della tigre?

In our most recent national survey of millionaires, we asked the respondents to designate their country of origin/ancestry/ethnic origin. The results may surprise you. TABLE

In general, the longer the average member of an ancestry group has been in America, the more likely he or she will become fully socialized to our high-consumption lifestyle. There is another reason. First-generation Americans tend to be self-employed. Self-employment is a major positive correlate of wealth. TABLE

Stayed on, and became the Cymri. What if we're all Jews, you see? all scattered like seeds? still flying outward from the primal fist so long ago. Man, I believe that.' 'Of course you do, Gwenhidwy.' ¶ 'Aren't we then? What about you?' ¶ 'I don't know. I don't feel Jewish today.' ¶ 'I meant flying outward?' He means alone and forever separate: Pointsman knows what he means.

No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.

Today, there are more people of Irish ancestry in the United States than in Ireland, more Jews than in Israel, more blacks than in most African countries. There are more people of Polish ancestry in Detroit than in most of the leading cities in Poland, and more than twice as many people of Italian ancestry in New York as in Venice.

The question as to whether flesh-and-blood people of indigenous ancestry today would have been better off had the Europeans not invaded can scarcely be asked, much less answered, because most flesh-and-blood contemporary American Indians would not exist if the Europeans had not invaded, since they are of European as well as indigenous ancestry. Nature is remarkably uncooperative with our moral categories. There is no way to unscramble an egg.

It was these elite families which produced such notable Americans of Scotch-Irish ancestry as Patrick Henry. Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Sam Houston. and others.

Kathleen G. Nadeau

Leopold Wilhelm Bernhard was born June 15, 1915 in Berlin, Germany, to parents from two old and well- known German families. His mother, Franziska, was a Bokelmann of Lubeck, of an aristocratic line with university educations, MDs, etc.

Human pigmentation is contained solely in the epidermis, the skin's outer layer. Lose the epidermis, we all look Scandinavian

There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.

Uvijek se može birati...pitanje je zapravo imate li hrabrosti da izaberete i da se toga držite?..Iskoristite ovu krizu i snagu koju vam je ?ini se donijela...otputujte na neko vrijeme...Vi ne poznajete moju majku..preživjela je uzdignute glave najgore dogadjaje, prezire slabost... U Selminim venama te?e krv 38 sultana. 6 stolje?a apsolutne vlasti - ali i 6 stolje?a kurtizana. Ona je podjednako plod i jednih i drugih, istovremeno i kraljica i robinja.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Para los más jóvenes aquel apellido sonoro y agudo que oían pronunciar de vez en cuando estaba vagamente ligado a la leyenda de aquellos parajes, a sus historias más antiguas, ciertas o no, y a algunas personas muertas mucho tiempo atrás que antes de abandonar este mundo se encargaron de dejar bien grabado su nombre en la memoria colectiva.

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?