Ancestors Quote by Henry Louis Gates

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family…

— Henry Louis Gates

“When defining relatedness and family, there are many perspectives. To some, family is about shared genetics. To others, it’s about shared experiences: growing up…

— Rachel HS Ginocchio

We're all related. We're all a family.

— Jack Johnson

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

— Steven Pinker

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

— Patrick White

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself…

— Ralph Ellison

The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

— Jane Seymour

“Relatedness - whether imagined or lived out face-to-face - is a social fact, and it is not limited to "kinship" as mapped in the…

— Naomi Leite

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Family is more than just DNA, Its about people who care and take care of each other.

— Melchor Lim

“Family is not just about who you appear to belong to, or what it says on your birth certificate, or who you look like,…

— Marina Chapman

Family isn't about sharing the same genetics, Thats being related, Family is when you love someone to death, and You would do anything for…

— Tanya Bianco