My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree… — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
People say you can choose your friends, but not your family. Well, I have cut a hell of a lot of branches… — Brii Ann Copy Share Image
There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“We do not demonstrate against anything. Our group is about being for something, never against. No antis except on my family tree.” — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Her brother has a disease, an illness with the shape and sound of a snake. It slithers through the branches of our… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“In this neck of the woods, the deeper the roots of your family tree, the higher your social esteem. My neighbor was… — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image
“If her death wakes something in the deep, then she will bring more shame down on her House with that one act… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“As a result, China has twenty-four million men who will be of marrying age by 2020 but unable to find a spouse—“bare… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
; People say you can choose your friends, but not your family. Well, I have cut a hell of a lot of… — Brittany Marcum Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
Take a holiday family photograph each year in the same spot, such as by a favorite tree in your yard. In years… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
