Quotes About Ancestry

My little sister Debbie was born at Aldergrove, and my nan is from southern Ireland, so I do try and get over quite a bit.

I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family.

The yoke of my birth

And here his descendants have been born and died, and have mingled their earthly substance with the soil, until no small portion of it necessarily be akin to the mortal frame where with, for a little while, I walk the streets

You might think your own personal apple has fallen far from the tree, but that tree has roots you don't see until you trip over them.

The first thing I remember my grandmother saying was, "I will bury all of you!

Imagine--here let me now address non-Indian readers--somehow meeting a member of the Haudenosaunee from 1491. Is it too much to speculate that beneath the swirling tattoos, asymmetrically trimmed hair, and bedizened robes, you would recognize someone much closer to yourself, at least in certain respects, than your own ancestors?

in the Middle East, for example, the wild barley harvest from a small piece of land can feed a family. By contrast, no wild maize ancestor has ever been found, despite decades of search.

More than nine out of ten Native Americans—and almost all South American Indians—have type O blood, for example, whereas Europeans are more evenly split between types O and A.

I do not believe, as we shall presently see, that all our dogs have descended from any one wild species; but, in the case of some other domestic races, there is presumptive, or even strong, evidence in favour of this view.

Two distinct elements are included under the term inheritance— the transmission, and the development of characters;

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

Some highly competent authorities are convinced that the setter is directly derived from the spaniel, and has probably been slowly altered from it. It is known that the English pointer has been

El embrión no queda afectado, y sirve como indicio de la pasada condición de las especies. Por eso sucede que las especies existentes, durante los primeros períodos de su desarrollo, se parecen a menudo a formas antiguas y extinguidas

Après douze générations, la proportion du sang, pour employer une expression vulgaire, n'est que de 1 sur 2 048; et pourtant, comme nous le voyons, on croit généralement que cette proportion infiniment petite de sang étranger suffit à déterminer une tendance au retour [ de ces caractères perdus. ]

species of the same genus would occasionally exhibit reversions to lost ancestral characters.

Habiendo tenido ejemplares vivos de casi todas las castas inglesas de aves de corral, habiéndoselas criado y cruzado, después de examinar sus esqueletos, nos parece casi cierto que en su totalidad descienden de la raza salvaje india Gallus bankiva.

revert to the wild aboriginal stock.

where the Coffins had lived ever since Noah's flood (if, indeed, they had not merely returned thither after that temporary displacement)

This compares to a 202 base pair difference between us and Neanderthals