Come Quote by Miriam Margolyes

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before…

— Charles Dickens

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

— V. S. Naipaul

“No sane paleontologist would ever claim that he or she had discovered "The Ancestor." Think about it this way: What is the chance that…

— Neil Shubin

“Do you know where most skeletons come from?" "When a mommy skeleton loves a daddy skeleton very much...”

— Leigh Perry

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

I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me…

— Jeremy Hardy

My mother was an O'Kane from Swatragh in County Derry. My father had a Donegal background. I came into the world when they had…

— Martin O'Neill

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.

— Neon Hitch

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 found the skeleton of a caveman a few years back. Miraculously, it had skin and hair still attached, and amazingly my archaeological discovery…

— Jarod Kintz

Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,

— Kathy Reichs

My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was a direct…

— Jeremy Hardy