Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Ancestors from all times have shared their essence with you. Accept the light and let go of the rest.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each of us carries a story written in the language of our mothers, still echoing through our bones.” — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America. — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or… — Gilles Kepel Copy Share Image
“If I want to grow and blossom as any tree would, I have to start by knowing my roots and understand how… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past.… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
“When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story… — Kara Martinelli Copy Share Image
Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“It becomes more and more difficult to credit Lisa with being a quarter Russian. Somewhere and within and behind this quintessentially middle-class… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
