Ancestry Quotes

111 quotes by 99 authors

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the… — Octavia Butler
When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a… — Nicolas Cage
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with… — August Weismann
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if… — Jacques Monod
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological… — Lynn Margulis
Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground. — William Tyler
I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see is another Australian… — Cathy Freeman
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock… — Alan Keyes
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. — Alex Haley
I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry. — Maya Rudolph
For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans. — John F. Kerry
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came… — Clifford D. Simak
You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven.… — Boyd K. Packer
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps… — Stephen Jay Gould
Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever… — Wilma Scott Heide
I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride… — Augustus Washington
There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry. — Archibald F. Bennett
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on… — Terri Runnels
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think… — Roger Brooke Taney
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the… — Kevyn Aucoin

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