Ancestor Quote by Jimmy Carter

“My grandparents on both sides were probably horse-thieves. No one ever told us anything about them. Therefore I suspect the worst. I imagine they…

— Victoria Wilson

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which…

— Christopher Gist

“ In genealogy you might say that interest lies in the eye of the gene holder. The actual descendants are far more intrigued with…

— Ellen Meloy

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

— Ben Jonson

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

People like to trace their ancestry.

— Richard Dawkins

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig,…

— Anonymous

Plenty of people are intrigued by their family history. Growing up as the son of West Indian immigrants who moved to London in the…

— David Lammy

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

— Zhu Rongji

“Unfortunately it is not possible to destroy our history. It lives inside us, probably the more powerful for our attempts to bury it. We…

— Monica McGoldrick

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

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

— Lynn Nottage