Quotes About Ancestry

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.

A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.

It runs in the blood like wooden legs.

He's a chip o' th' old block.

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

Born of a noble father and a saintly mother, President Hinckley learned as a young boy the truths of the restored gospel from his faithful parents. He came to respect deeply and value highly his pioneer heritage.

It's all about the family tree, there's a family tree. You know Melly Mel birthed KRS-One, KRS-One I think birthed Tupac.

My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.

It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.

My father was a Gujarati and my mom Turkish.

Because of our Turkish roots, we still have a very strong relationship with Turkey.

My father's father fought to free Crete from the Turks, who expelled my mother from her ancestral home in Asia Minor in 1922. So how could I stand aside from my country's troubles?

Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I've turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

My father was Greek, but he turned French during the war, and my mother was French. So I'm French, but I have Greek blood.

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.

The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.

My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr.