Ancestry Quote by Richard Dawkins

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

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

It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a…

— Spencer Wells

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

— Louis L'Amour

“ 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

“Everyone will tell you that genealogy serves two purposes: self-knowledge and social status, some sort of pedigree divined from names, locations, and achievements of…

— Ellen Meloy

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

— Alex Haley

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

— V. S. Naipaul

My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But I lose…

— Carlos Mencia

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

— Ambrose Bierce

Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can go back…

— Henry Louis Gates

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself…

— Ralph Ellison