Ancestors Quote by Deb Haaland

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.

— Garrison Keillor

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

— Barack Obama

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and…

— Robert Patterson

My family, we're indigenous people from San Luis Potosi in Central Mexico. My father moved to Detroit and brought all of us because the…

— Sixto Rodriguez

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most dramatic case is that of the Central Americans. Why are people fleeing Central America? It's because of the atrocities the U.S. committed…

— Noam Chomsky

“We all have come here from somewhere else, and the vast majority of us are only a few generations removed from another land. Whether…

— Dan Rather

People ask me about staying here. I think they assume that I wouldn't want to come back to a place like Mississippi, which is…

— Jesmyn Ward

We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently…

— Mitch McConnell

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

— Milana Vayntrub

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people…

— Barack Obama

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

— Viggo Mortensen