Ancestry Quotes

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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