Quotes about Ancestry

You can't forget your roots.

Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.

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.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

Ona and Yagan people.

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from.