Ancestry Quotes
Ancestors from all times have shared their essence with you. Accept the light and let go of the rest.
I keep the light and love from my ancestors and let go of the rest.
We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing.
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...
In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.
You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.
In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.
Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.
The fountain of youth resides in our memory. You will never outlive your shadow.
Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are descended from, is their birthright.
Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind.
A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
My father was a Creole his father a Negro and his father a monkey my family it seems begins where yours left off.
The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.
When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.
The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children.
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.
Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.