Ancestors Quote by Robson Green

There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave…

— Kate Wilhelm

There is something quintessentially northern in my DNA, even though I've lived in London since I was 18.

— Lesley Sharp

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's side of the family tree is Scotland - Edinburgh, in fact.

— Tony Adams

My dad's family comes from the North, and my mother's family comes from somewhere around Carmarthenshire.

— Henry Thomas

My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he…

— Tom Bennett

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

“Family is not just about who you appear to belong to, or what it says on your birth certificate, or who you look like,…

— Marina Chapman

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

— Quentin S. Crisp

My dad's family was from Tennessee. I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, where we lived at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As…

— Connie Britton

My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.

— Richard Flanagan

My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to…

— Sara Sheridan