Ancestor Quote by Neon Hitch

[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster…

— Dwight Yoakam

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

— Richard Flanagan

I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We…

— Peta Wilson

I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K.…

— Sebastian Coe

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

Im crazy about my father, hes an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We…

— Peta Wilson

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

My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of…

— Seamus Heaney

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few…

— Sarah Lancashire

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

I heard more of the stories from my mother and my granny and my aunts that would describe what they had known that he…

— Dwight Yoakam

I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me,…

— Luanne Rice