Ancestry Quotes

By ancestry, I was born to rule.
Nelson Mandela

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

Society, Hatred, Nation

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, America, Makes

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
Henry Louis Gates

Same, Since, Helping

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, America, Makes

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.
Henry Louis Gates

Before, America, American

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.
Henry Louis Gates

Find, Used, Few

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Learn, Again

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

Mother, Father, Cannot

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

Family, Person, Start

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
Angela Merkel

Today, Pride, American

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
Octavia Butler

Work, Emotional, Trying

I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
Gary Locke

Freedom, America, Proud

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.
Paul Harris

Liberty, Proud, Fact

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.
Mick Taylor

Enough, Far, Idea

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?
Lynn Margulis

Life, Enough, Question

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
Maya Rudolph

Lovely, Guilt, Jewish

The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
Zoe Lister-Jones

Secret, Worst, View

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
John Phillips Marquand

Him, Honest, Few

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.
Thomas John Barnardo

Character, Personal, Importance

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Thomas Overbury

Best, Nothing, Ground

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.
Clifford D. Simak

Means, Mine, Material

And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.
Jeff Hawkins

True, Fact, Common

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Life, Women, Men

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
Lucan

Men, Name, Shadow

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
Harlan Stone

Nature, Equality, Free

The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Ignatius Donnelly

Hope, Pride, Nor

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