Ancestry Quote by Angela Merkel

Of course, our roots are in Germany, it always will be the feeling of home.

— Bill Kaulitz

“But it is an American thing to love one's roots. American nationality, I mused, is a very special and unique phenomenon in the world.…

— Marianne Meyerhoff

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have…

— John Steinbeck

Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.

— Joe Sestak

We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in…

— Ernest Istook

The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen…

— S. I. Hayakawa

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

— Jared Polis

We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.

— Moses Hess

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their…

— Steve Cosson

“In 1782 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, in Letters from an American Farmer wrote:            “Whence came all these people? They are…

— John Price

I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact,…

— Sebastian Arcelus

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed…

— Soledad O'Brien