Quotes about Ancestry

Thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.

How could he deny the jewels of posterity within his loins?

still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

I felt so insufferably alone. I remembered Miss Myra Turnbull telling us once that this desperate need we have to belong to someone goes back to our earliest forebears, the lowest form of animal life, the amoeba, each individual particle of which has to be joined to other particles to make a whole. Then

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

Don't forget your history nor your destiny.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.