Ancestors Quote by Jeremy Hardy

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

— V. S. Naipaul

When I looked at the family tree and at where my ancestors lived, it was places like Rothbury and Tropton! I was going, 'No,…

— Robson Green

People like to trace their ancestry.

— Richard Dawkins

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

— V. S. Naipaul

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

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant…

— Dmitri Volkogonov

I don't think that it's ever irrelevant to know where you came from, to know your history, and to improve upon your history.

— Rege-Jean Page

I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must…

— Sebastian Barry

I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who…

— Isabel Wilkerson

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

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

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

— Louis L'Amour