Ancestry Quote by V. S. Naipaul Download Open image “I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.” — V. S. Naipaul ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestry Beyond Cannot Father Go Mother Parenting
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it!… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries. — Mika Copy Share Image
My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of white Americans… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
I haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back. I have… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany. — Mark Dacascos Copy Share
I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are. — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and… — Lianne La Havas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World… — Jared Diamond Copy Share
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods. — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated it for… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
