Ancestry Quotes
111 quotes by 99 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.
— William Tyler
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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
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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
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
— Alex Haley
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I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
— Maya Rudolph
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Ancestry Quotes
99 authors contributed a total of 111 Ancestry Quotes, led by these top contributors: