“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
“It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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
“If your ancestries consist of a Super Nova, then I guess that would make you a Super Star.”
Sean Crosby
“Belafonte continues to distort history. My book shows that a number of people of partial Jewish ancestry served in the German military, but they did not even consider themselves Jews.”
Bryan Mark Rigg
“A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground”
Spanish Proverb
“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”
Alex Haley