Ancestry Quotes

A lot of my fondness for music came from them, and no doubt from their Welsh and Irish ancestry, too. When I reached 12, I finally knew I wanted to be a singer.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

I teach the twins because I generally don`t trust school districts. The districts force the teachers to preach about equality while portraying white people in an incredibly negative light, so that they make white people feel embarrassed and ashamed to be from European ancestry. That`s not what I want my kids go grow up thinking.

So what we can answer (as geneticists) is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it -- the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology,

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

I wasn`t trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground