Ancestor Quote by Dmitri Volkogonov

Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can go back…

— Henry Louis Gates

I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very little memory…

— Robert Barry

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

— V. S. Naipaul

The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past,…

— Sylvia Browne

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

— Douglas Coupland

People like to trace their ancestry.

— Richard Dawkins

“We tend to know a lot about our parents’ lives, but our grandparents? The big events of their lives happened long before we were…

— Lauren K. Denton

I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to historical events, so to get the chance to research our family history using our…

— Ant McPartlin

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

My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of white Americans…

— Alex Wagner

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