Top Ancestry Quotes

There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I don’t much respect (Mosaic Law, the Nuremberg Laws,...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been...

Ancestry Definition

(n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

(n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

Discrimination is the most polite word for abuse aka denying equal opportunity by anyone in power based on age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care a...

Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are descended from, is their birthright.

Our names were made for us in another century.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.

I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the...

The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains his crime. He reinforces the racist presumption. It is only when that presumption is questi...

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

A certain bygone philosophy-which certainly must have quite forgotten all about the real child-used to speak of the child's nature as a tabula rasa, or 'blank page,' upon which experience and training...

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.