“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by… — Hallie Flanagan Copy Share Image
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground. — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I have a musical ancestry as much as I have a family ancestry. Honoring those ancestors gives you access to a greater… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I… — Augustus Washington Copy Share Image
Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not… — FM-2030 Copy Share Image
“I call this place the mother ache rather than the mother wound because it is not only pain but also longing—the pull… — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
