Ancestors Quote by Diane Ackerman

Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie in those…

— Jonathan Kingdon

“History is natural selection. Mutant versions of the past struggle for dominance; new species of fact arise,and old, saurian truths go to the wall,…

— Salman Rushdie

The other piece about tracing your ancestry is it makes you slightly more empathetic about what happens today. As we seem to have lost…

— Alex Wagner

In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny,…

— Ernst Haeckel

I have great lineage.

— Princess Michael of Kent

Oh, it is a boon to have a lineage like mine. Of course there's additional responsibility, and I have to live up to expectations…

— Naga Chaitanya

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in…

— Anonymous

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more…

— Bryan Sykes

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth…

— Fred Hoyle

To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully…

— Alex Haley

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

— Jeremy Paxman

It's important to evolve without ever straying too far from your roots and what established you.

— Jim Root