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- Nov 07, 2020
Ancestry Quotes
Lines on where our families come from.
This page collects quotes about ancestry, from nations shaped by shared stories about their origins to individuals discovering surprises in their own family history. For more on family bonds generally, see Family quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Best Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 journey from an African homeland to wherever you live.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
While researching my ancestry I have unearthed many skeletons. It would seem that I come from a long line of ne'er-do-wells, especially on my mother's side.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got some Jewish ancestry and I don't like waste.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely think my ancestry has something to do with my politics. And I think being deeply suspicious of government and communists is implicit in a lot of first-generation immigrants, particularly from Eastern Europe. My mom came over from Romania when she was a kid and they fled the commies who took their family hemp farm.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020