Ancestor Quote by Marion Zimmer Bradley

I think my mother's family came on the Mayflower from England - D.A.R., you know.

— Sissy Spacek

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

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

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

— Patrick White

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

— Sargent Shriver

My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.

— Dennis Hopper

My own forefathers arrived in America in 1620 on the Mayflower.

— Michael J. Knowles

I have a lot of cousins that I'm very close to.

— Alexander Dreymon

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

— Steven Pinker

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

— V. S. Naipaul

I was an only child, but I did have a hell of a lot of cousins.

— Desi Arnaz